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

More than two billion people around the world are infected with a brain parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. This parasite is ...

Researchers have discovered a rare example of "great fish parenting" with a common coral reef species found to actively ...

Parents of students at a school in the South West have been warned that several students have caught the disease, which can ...

The country has set a target of eliminating the disease by 2030, in line with WHO’s Global Technical Strategy that aims to ...

A risk assessment in Norway has supported previous findings showing it is unlikely that Echinococcus multilocularis will be imported into the country via ...

The health department has selected 17 districts, including Pune, Satara, Nashik, Sambhajinagar and Ahilyadevinagar, among others, for the screening test ...

I just read that the Land Bank has auctioned off their entire goat herd of 168 individuals to the sole bidder at $10 a head. As an animal advocate, this is very distressing to me. These sentient, ...

“We now have the exciting opportunity to test the new RH5.1 blood-stage vaccine in combination with the approved liver-stage ...

A new malaria vaccine that tackles the infection at a different stage to those currently on offer has been shown to be “safe and well tolerated” in clinical trials, an Oxford expert has said. It is ...

The jab targets parasites after they pass through the liver and into the blood, which is the stage that causes symptoms ...

Getty Images For the first time in my life I am considering becoming a vegetarian. This is solely out of concern for my ...