Eating undercooked meat is never a good idea—it can give you a nasty case of food poisoning within 24 hours. And there are ...

Its eggs are then shed in bird feces, with further stages cycling through snails ... but apathetic if not outright hostile to the idea of conserving its unique parasite. Beyond human perceptions of ...

Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

or feces, infected blood, and insects. Your risk of having a parasite is higher if you live in or visit an area where parasites are common or where human or animal waste is not treated properly.

cantonensis is excreted in the rat’s feces that snails and slugs subsequently eat. The parasite larvae then matures ... laying the groundwork for human transmission. Species like land crabs ...

Gut symptoms blight millions of Brits every year. But the cause may not be actually be irritable bowel syndrome or increasingly common lactose intolerance.

"I spoke with some of the neighbors who let me know that the mother had left them on their own," Natalie Parra, 32, told ...

Chimpanzees are humans' closest living relatives, sharing more than 98% of our DNA. They are endangered, with fewer than ...

When 30-year-old Ella Rhian set off on a dream vacation across Vietnam and Bali, she never imagined a simple meal would alter ...

One of the toilets, likely used by the crown prince and his court ladies, may have drained directly into a nearby river ...

but the parasite transmission to humans is quite inefficient,” said Bast. “This parasite is spread to people and animals by the feces of infected kissing bugs.” After taking a blood meal ...

Long story short: not all modern bivalve-borne infections can be blamed on climate change as opposed to human feces sullying our seas. In addition, other lapses in handling can lead to ...