Certain parasitic worms survive by taking control of snail behavior. Instead of hiding, infected snails are driven into exposed areas where predators can easily find them. The worms manipulate ...

Dog owners are often advised to prevent heartworm infections with drugs called parasiticides, but their widespread use has ...

A cadre of volunteers are providing veterinary care and grooming services for dozens of cats rescued from a hoarding ...

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden battle between a widespread brain parasite and the immune cells tasked with destroying it. A parasite that can quietly persist in the human brain is capable of ...

Recent shark attacks may be linked less to shark behaviour – and more to the pollutants, pesticides and parasites humans send ...

The "very thin" little one was found alongside her two baby kittens during January's cold snap, as temperatures plummeted as ...

The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) said that the cat was found near Vines Road and Dungannon Drive in ...

An Australian study has shed light on a pest you’ve probably hosted at some point – and it has unearthed a new theory about how diseases jump into humans.

Only a few hours earlier, a shark knocked an 11-year-old boy into the water at Dee Why—just north of Manly—and bit a chunk ...

New research finds that a popular class of antiparasitics can linger in pet feces for quite some time, potentially posing a ...