A Mexican restaurant in Hopkins County is facing a lawsuit after several customers contracted giardia, a parasite that causes an intestinal infection and is typically transmitted through food and ...

A lawsuit was filed Monday in Hopkins County against a Madisonville restaurant following an outbreak of a parasitic illness ...

The Hopkins County Health Department (HCHD) says the county is experiencing a "Giardia outbreak." According to the Mayo ...

The map shows the ports of entry affected by the U.S. Agriculture Department’s announcement and the approximate locations of ...

America's hidden epidemic of tropical diseases. ... It is the most common parasitic disease in the Americas, and it can be treated – if the doctor is aware of it. Most US doctors aren’t.

The key to fighting EHP lies in prevention. Farmers must ensure that seeds they stock are EHP-free, says Aquaculture joint ...

One parasite-caused disease causes painless skin lesions, ... The opioid epidemic across the U.S. has been described as perhaps one of the most serious and prolonged public health crises in ...

One disease these parasites cause, African sleeping sickness, results from the bite of infected tsetse flies, ... The recent 1998-2001 sleeping sickness epidemics in South Sudan, ...

So begins An Epidemic of Absence, Velasquez-Manoff's new book about a tantalizing hypothesis for a modern medical mystery: Why autoimmune diseases, in which a person's immune system attacks their ...

Part of a worldwide epidemic of tickborne disease, ... Thousands of Americans each year contract the tickborne disease, babesia, a malaria-like parasite transmitted by the same ticks as Lyme disease.