A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the ...

A parasitic worm capable of infecting the human brain has established local transmission in California for the first time, ...

The natural world is always fascinating, with millions of unique species for us to explore and research. But now and again, nature presents us with something so strange that it is, frankly, bizarre.

One of the slowest moving creatures in our world, the snails become the hosts of a ghostly parasite that turns them into zombies. This isn't an episode out of some horror movie but a truth that ...

In Southern California, a quiet but widespread public health risk has taken root in the region’s freshwater fishing spots. Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego recently ...