Some people online believe many of us have dangerous parasites in our gut and need to flush them out with herbal supplements.

A tropical disease once seen almost exclusively in returning travelers is now being detected in Texas and the south in people with no international travel history — caused by a parasite strain that’s ...

Move over mosquitos. There’s another blood-sucking biter Americans need to guard against because it can spread disease: the sand fly. Sand flies are tiny tan flies — about the quarter of the size of a ...

A new study has found that horses with higher parasitic loads also have worse coat conditions, thanks to a novel tool with far-reaching impacts developed by UConn researchers. This work was led by ...