Doctors warn that the parasite cleanse trend misleads patients, causing health risks and delaying proper diagnosis of ...

Parasites are organisms that feed off their hosts for survival. Such parasitic creatures can cause mild to serious symptoms and, in some cases, fatal infections in their hosts. “Overall, parasites ...

Why do parasites harm their hosts? That's a question evolutionary biologists ask as they try to predict how a parasite might ...

A detailed genetic analysis shows schistosome parasites that infect humans contain genes from the parasites that infect cattle in the northern part of Africa, but not in the southern part. The ...