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 ...

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 ...