Every night while you sleep, microscopic eight-legged parasites called Demodex mites emerge from your pores and crawl on your ...

The article highlights ten non-venomous snakes. These snakes thrive using skills like constriction and camouflage. Rough ...

As you fall asleep each night, you can take comfort in knowing you are never truly alone — thanks to the dozens of eight-legged mites crawling out of your pores to party.

Female genital schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, devastates women amid poor sanitation and medical misdiagnoses.

Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good ...

Infectious diseases such as gonorrhea or chlamydia are often overlooked factors that affect fertility in men. Accumulating evidence suggests that a common single-celled parasite called Toxoplasma ...

Discover the shocking parasite contamination hiding in your healthy foods. Fresh spinach, berries harbor dangerous bugs.

As spring progresses into summer, one of nature’s tiniest terrors becomes active: the tick. They are small, almost ...

The team packed the hellbenders up and drove to a river in Middle Tennessee, where biologists donned wet suits and snorkels and hopped into the cold streams. They deposited the hellbenders under the ...

Fearing a resurgence of the New World Screwworm parasite in the US, the Department of Agriculture block livestock imports from Mexico ...

New World screwworm flies cause myiasis, an infection of flesh-eating maggots that burrow into the skin of living ... Click here to see them. The parasites can infect livestock, wildlife, birds, pets, ...

The disease, caused by parasitic worms that live inside freshwater ... The fork-shaped grub burrows through human skin where it lays thousands of eggs. These eggs can lodge in organs and, if ...