Health officials are raising concerns about the spread of Chagas disease, a parasitic illness, across the United States, particularly in California. A recent study published in the CDC journal ...

Those achievements are well-known: Fighting Guinea worm disease, a parasitic illness that once affected more than 3 million people but in 2023 affected just 14.

An outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis, better known as the gastrointestinal illness Crypto, is sweeping through Northern Kentucky. The Northern Kentucky Health Department confirmed about a dozen cases ...

Disease-prevention efforts organized by the late former president drove cases of the torturous parasitic illness, Guinea worm disease, down from 3.6 million to 13.

The Northern Kentucky Health Department said there are likely more cases as it investigates an outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis. And some of them are on the Ohio side of the river as well.

Once called Nantucket fever, the tick-borne illness babesios is spreading from the Northeast into the Midwest. A clinical trial starts this month to see if an anti- malaria drug can treat the disease.

Pinellas County, Florida -- The Florida Health Department has issued a health alert for Pinellas County after 58 cases of a parasitic illness have been reported.

Lymphedema: In 2023, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India launched a comprehensive five-pronged strategy to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) as a public health problem from the ...