Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malaria is transmitted to people by mosquitoes infected with a parasite from the _Plasmodium_ family. Jim Gathany via CDC/Dr.

University of Cincinnati graduate Joshua Carlson holds a container of uninfected kissing bugs, the insects responsible for transmitting the parasite responsible for Chagas disease. He was lead author ...

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If you live in Africa, parasitic worms and mosquitos are some of your worst enemies. Together, they infect millions of people, causing horrible diseases like river blindness or conditions like ...

American agriculture officials are urging calm, but continued vigilance, after an Argentinian horse infected with New World Screwworm was recently intercepted at an import inspection facility in ...

Some people online believe many of us have dangerous parasites in our gut and need to flush them out with herbal supplements.

Mike Pearson take a look at the Asian Longhorn Tick spreading rapidly across Missouri, threatening cattle herds.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kwesi Akonu Adom Mensah Forson, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) Every year, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But something is shifting. As a malaria researcher working on my Ph.D., I study how ...