Gastroenterologist Dr. Joseph Salhab warns that many \"parasite cleanses\" promoted online are ineffective, often consisting ...

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

DNA within dried feces dating from more than 1,000 years ago provides valuable insights into the pathogens that plagued ...

Pathogens and parasites, it turned out, were exceedingly common in people living in that area then. For example, the vast ...

The fish appear to favor the locale not for the sights, but for their neighbors—tiny spider crabs that feast on the animal’s ...

If you’re of a certain generation, you’re likely to have clear memories of weekly dosings with cod liver oil (or castor oil, if you were particularly unlucky), a practice that was ostensibly a worm ...

Demodex mites are microscopic, which may be why your doctor was skeptical that you had seen one. And because they are so common, anything less than an overgrowth that is leading to symptoms would ...

Fenbendazole has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. It is a deworming medicine that treats infections caused by ...

Zoonotic diseases, like COVID-19, malaria, and rabies, are illnesses that can spread from animals to people and vice versa.

It has long been known that bacterial pathogens are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. However, common ...

Using millions of microscope images magnified up to 130,000 times, researchers from Radboud University Medical Center and ...

Cats' habit of eating grass has long puzzled pet owners and scientists. They chew it, they gag, they vomit, but they keep ...