African sleeping sickness and related diseases can be treated only with toxic and sometimes ineffective drugs. Now, ...

A parasite carried by billions of people worldwide often causes harmful infections during pregnancy and in immunocompromised ...

The other night, I found myself in the unenviable position of trying to cook a salad. And I mean cook a salad: I spread fresh, delicious-looking gem lettuce in a pan and watched it wilt away into a ...

If your diet is full of fresh fruits and vegetables, the cyclosporiasis outbreak spiking across the country may be raising concerns on what to eat. Caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora ...

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This undated photo taken through a microscope provided by the CDC shows Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts found in a fresh stool sample which had been prepared with a formalin solution and stained with ...

Health officials in Texas and across the country are urging families to practice safe meal-making practices as a summer stomach parasite continues to spread. The Texas Department of State Health ...

Hundreds of New Yorkers have become sick in recent weeks from a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea and nausea, state health officials said. New York was an early epicenter of the national ...

Some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise, such as from ventilation systems, heat pumps, wind turbines and transformers. Why is that? The brain perceives low-frequency sounds in a ...

More than a thousand Americans have fallen ill with a condition that can cause “explosive” diarrhea. The culprit, the cyclospora parasite, triggers an unpleasant gastrointestinal infection known as ...