Malaria remains a persistent public health burden, with Plasmodium falciparum causing the most dangerous form of malaria and ...

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

Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century. An analysis from 1992 noted a steady decrease in sperm ...

Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it entirely.

After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

A disease called babesiosis involves parasites that first appear in rodents, and it's becoming more prevalent in Maryland.