Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading a woman's brain and causing rare and rapidly progressing lesions. The previously healthy 60-year-old ...

A parasitic infection transmitted to humans by cats affects billions of people and can alter their behavior. New research ...

Penn Vet researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii ...

Most humans have long-lived infections in various tissues—including in the nervous system—that typically do not result in ...

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Spare a thought for the patient who attended a Florida hospital to be X-rayed following a fall - only to discover he was riddled with parasitic eggs that ... health issues were "caused by a worm that ...

Most people exposed to the parasites behind babesiosis don't get sick, but for others, the infection can be deadly.

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection which affects roughly 1 in 3 humans: around 2.4 billion people. In its acute version, it can be lethal. But, for most people, it is latent and lacks clinical ...