People are coming together to rally behind the family of a Pryor boy with a rare infection caused by a parasite called ...

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Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

Ms. Arakawa, the wife of the actor Gene Hackman, died from the effects of a disease often caused by contact with droppings ...

Gut symptoms blight millions of Brits every year. But the cause may not be actually be irritable bowel syndrome or ...

Global partnerships that embed scientific research into clinical care are revolutionising the diagnosis and treatments for children with rare genetic diseases, according to a new report. The white ...

A Group, Massive Awareness for Rare Diseases (MARD) Nigeria, yesterday, visited markets in the Igbona area of Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, to create awareness on rare diseases and advocate ...

Humans can then become hosts after eating ... to assess her cerebrospinal fluid revealed signs of a rare brain infection caused by parasites known as eosinophilic meningitis.

Yet when medical staff performed a lumbar puncture, they found the patient's cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which bathes the brain and spinal cord, contained markers of eosinophilic meningitis – a rare ...

IT is not well-known that stray cats that have not been dewormed often carry zoonotic parasites (parasites that can be transmitted from animals to humans). I carried out surveys on faecal samples ...

the CDC says there have been rare instances over the last decade where bird flu viruses have spread from mammals to people. Examples include the spread of bird flu from a cat to a human in 2016 ...

Both authors share equal and corresponding authorship. The helminth diseases schistosomiasis, opisthorchiasis, and clonorchiasis are highly carcinogenic. Trypanosoma cruzi has a dual role in cancer ...