Parasites

A Colombian man's lung tumors turned out to have an extremely unusual cause: The rapidly growing masses weren't actually made of human cells, but were from a tapeworm living inside him.

From tissue-munching bacteria to brain-eating amoebas, there are a number of things that can literally eat you alive.

An undetected parasite in an organ donor caused severe brain problems in three transplant patients.

One of the deadliest parasites in the world, the ameba Entamoeba histolytica, could be treated by targeting the human genes that allow the parasite to cause disease, researchers say.

When former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced earlier this month that he had melanoma, he also took the opportunity to slam another health issue: the Guinea worm.

Wasps can do a lot more than ruin a summer picnic.

About 425 million years ago, a sneaky wormlike parasite invaded a crustacean before the two were fossilized together in the limestone of modern-day England, a new study finds.

The excavation of a roughly 500-year-old latrine in Jerusalem has uncovered thousands of eggs from human parasites, including some that may have come from Northern Europe, a new study finds.

Marine ecologist Paul Sikkel discusses his passion for and work with coral reefs and the best ways to protect them.

Anglerfish mating involves biting, tissue fusion and the complete lack of mate choice by females.

In a remote area of Southeast Asia, drones are fighting a battle — not against terrorists or insurgents, but against infectious disease.

When you’re sick, you want the most effective treatment to help get you back on your feet. But what if that involved bugs?

A fungus that turns worker ants into zombie henchmen has a surprisingly clever strategy to recruit new hosts.

With the increase of cross-species disease it is important to understand how disease, species-interactions and biodiversity interact.

The fossil of a wild-looking parasite with a tiny head and whose midbody evolution transformed into a sucking plate, has been discovered in what is now northeastern China.

An ancient flatworm egg found at a burial site in Syria may be the oldest evidence of man-made technologies fueling the rise of a parasitic disease.