The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is urging people in southern Texas to keep a lookout for animals suffering from New World screwworm (NWS), a dangerous parasite that also impacts humans.

A worm-like parasite lived in a woman's eye for two years, and doctors believe it entered her body after she ate crocodile meat. The infected 28-year-old woman, from the town of Basankusu in the ...

Nearly 850 species of parasites are known to infect people; some, like the potentially deadly plasmodium parasite that causes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling for residents in the Palmetto State to keep an eye out for another ...

Missouri is one of eight states in the country where a human has been diagnosed with Chagas disease, a parasitic infection spread by bugs. Scientists are now calling on health authorities to declare ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A Chattanooga mother is warning other parents after she found parasites in her son's eye after he went swimming in Harrison Bay. Melissa Brown said her 12-year-old son, Cole ...