Key points A 40-year-old man was referred to our internal medicine clinic for assessment of a 3-month history of unintentional weight loss and daily night sweats with subjective fevers. He had been ...

Park entrances and playgrounds contaminated with infectious Toxocara roundworm eggs. Keep parks clean to avoid parastic ...

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

Pippa Sharp, 49, tried over the counter medication for six months before seeking medical advice about the reoccurring infection.

Heather Barry, a 36-year-old mom of three, said in an interview with ‘Today’ that she saw doctors for months due to ...

Researchers from Auburn University, in a landmark collaboration with Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), the world's ...

A SHOCKING new report has highlighted how a trip to your local park could leave you blind. Soil tests from parks in Dublin, ...

In a nutshell Park entrances have the highest concentration of Toxocara parasite eggs, followed by playgrounds, posing a ...

Nitisinone, a drug for genetic disorders, could help control malaria by making human blood toxic to mosquitoes. Anopheles ...

Irish researchers have pinpointed the exact locations in public parks that are most heavily contaminated with a parasite that ...

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 ...

Pork can carry taenia solium larvae, a parasitic tapeworm. After eating infected pork, the larvae get into body tissues where ...