Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six family members were sickened with a rare parasitic disease caused by roundworm larvae after they ate kebabs made of bear meat.

(KTLA) — A rare parasitic infection that is linked to raccoons has been detected in two people in Southern California, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced. Baylisascaris ...

A strange animal never seen before, Diplolaimelloides woaabi, was discovered in the Great Salt Lake, defying science and the ...

You may not be alone in your home this spring as skunks, squirrels, and raccoons are looking to give birth in your home's ...

HAMPTON, Va. — A new study came out highlighting the top 10 cities in the United States with the highest roundworm infections, and at the end of October, Hampton topped the list. For a more in-depth ...

While two people in Los Angeles County recently were infected with "raccoon roundworm," the infection is rare and doesn't pose a widespread threat, experts said. The parasite that causes the disease, ...

Scientists took a step back to a simpler organism -- a common roundworm -- and made a discovery about how the Ras oncogene chooses a signaling pathway and how the consequences of that choice play out ...

In many species, mating comes at the steep price of an organism's life, an evolutionary process intended to regulate reproductive competition. But males of certain roundworm species have doubled down ...

New research reveals that King Richard III suffered from roundworm. The remains of the monarch, who died during the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, were exhumed from underneath a car park in ...

A two-year study in rural Kenya explored the effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions on rates of intestinal worm and Giardia infections. The results indicated ...