Pork can carry taenia solium larvae, a parasitic tapeworm. After eating infected pork, the larvae get into body tissues where they form cysts – a condition called cysticercosis. The larvae can travel ...

Products such as K9 Advantix® II are recommended and trusted by veterinarians to prevent tick bites that can cause Lyme ...

At any given point, someone somewhere in India is minting money by tinkering with our food, inflicting terrible human and ...

Parasites can be picked up from pets (including dogs and cats), insects, infected blood, and contaminated food, water, or feces. Your risk of having a parasite is higher if you live in or visit an ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Birds are fairly odd creatures, but among the odd are the oddest — strange and wacky evolutions that perfectly suit their ecological niche while appearing alien and ...

If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...

My father believed that dead animals are toxic to humans and eating ... the red tracheal worm. Once settled in the airways, the worms feed on mucous and blood and lay eggs that are coughed up ...

In humans, although the tapeworm can cause an upset stomach, it can also be asymptomatic – apart from rice grain-sized eggs in the faeces. Anthelmintic drugs, including praziquantel and ...

In the fight against malaria, controlling the mosquito population is crucial. Several methods are currently used to reduce ...

Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...