A Portland State University-led research team has developed a novel chemical compound that shows promise for the treatment ...

A study of canned salmon finds rising parasite counts over decades, suggesting ocean food webs may be recovering rather than ...

The parasitic flatworms attach themselves to waterfowl and snails before inadvertently penetrating human skin.

Mississippi State University biologist Matthew W. Brown is part of an international research team whose latest findings, published this spring in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

For decades, scientists have observed a clear pattern across the natural world: biodiversity tends to be higher near the equator and lower toward the poles. Known as the latitudinal diversity gradient ...

For many producers, deworming has become a routine part of herd management. Cattle are processed, products are administered ...

Whether it's finding a tick buried in your socks after a walk in the woods or yanking off a few leeches after a pond swim, parasites trigger revulsion in most of us. And forget about those worms in ...

It’s Halloween season, the liminal period when the general public seems to have a greater tolerance for stomach-churning content, so let’s talk about parasites, perhaps the most disgusting — and ...

IN 1987, officials from the US Fish and Wildlife Service captured all 22 of the world’s remaining California condors in a last-ditch effort to save the species. Back at San Diego Wild Animal Park and ...

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