Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum – preserving decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin. Parasites can reveal a lot about an ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

The Department of Agriculture on Wednesday halted cattle shipments from Mexico to the United States over concerns of the New World screwworm parasite's rapid spread.

Bugs found in 29 states, primarily Florida and Texas, may be invading homes and spreading a deadly parasite responsible for a ...

Coughing: Not all dogs will develop this symptom, but when the worms migrate through the body, they can damage the lungs and ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

The monsoon bring much-needed relief from the heat, but also open the gates to dangerous, waterborne illnesses. For pet ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their ...

Parasite cleanses are dietary regimens or supplements designed to eliminate parasites (organisms that infect other organisms and feed off their host’s nutrients) from the digestive tract. The most ...

New sonic AI technology could offer sheep producers an alternative to ultrasound that they could use themselves to check for ...