New World screwworm was largely eradicated from the U.S. and Central America in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively. But the ...

When an infected fly bites a person, it regurgitates this plug, thereby injecting its saliva and the parasite-containing gel into the person's skin. Rogers and his colleagues determined that in ...

The bugs then tend to defecate after they bite, which can lead their parasite-containing feces to ... which helps it cut through skin. However, kissing bug bites are generally painless (given ...

When the mosquito bites a victim ... But some egg-laying parasites go more than just skin deep. Tapeworms, for example, invade your intestines. Adults can stretch longer than a bowling lane ...

Scientists have developed a new vaccination strategy for malaria — boosting immunity through bites from mosquitoes carrying a genetically engineered version of the parasite that causes malaria.

Malaria is caused by a parasite that gets into the bloodstream when an infected mosquito bites humans - or animals. There are lots of different strains of parasite and one of the most important ...

Officials said this is a seasonal disease and only affects the skin. They said our immune system is pretty good at fighting the parasite. If you do plan on hitting the lakes this summer ...

In first-stage testing, 20 subjects were exposed to either 15 or 50 bites from mosquitoes carrying the modified GA2 parasite. None of the subjects showed evidence of a blood-stage infection ...