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

A toddler from Arkansas died of an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba lurking in a water park. The young boy was 16 ...

Eating undercooked meat is never a good idea—it can give you a nasty case of food poisoning within 24 hours. And there are other, longer-term risks to be wary of too.

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Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic ... eat an infected slug or snail. From the rat's gastrointestinal tract, the larvae tunnel their way to the animal's brain ...

A recent report has raised alarms over the growing number of Naegleria fowleri cases in Karachi, pointing to contaminated ...

Along with a slew of other physical impacts that running a marathon can have on the human body, a new study reveals that your body may also start eating ... water in the runners’ brains — which can be ...

Take the flatworm parasite Euhaplorchis californiensis, for example. When it infects the small, colorful California killifish, the fish swims in a jerky, conspicuous way close to the water surface.

The team suspects that new flavors may “tag” certain brain cells to stay sensitive to illness signals for hours after eating. This tag allows those cells to be specifically reactivated by ...