Initially established in Everglades National Park in the early 1980s, Burmese pythons quickly put a stranglehold on Florida's wildlife, contributing to the decline of small mammals, including raccoons ...

UC Davis nematologists, including Valerie Williamson, professor emerita in the Department of Plant Pathology, and associate ...

The country's first-ever H5N5 bird flu case has been confirmed in Washington State, where a resident is hospitalized with a ...

Professor Gideon Wasserberg at UNC Greensboro has been awarded a prestigious $3.7 million National Institutes of Health R01 ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...

The U.S. has reported its first human case of bird flu since February, with a confirmed infection in Washington state ...

New research shows that it's possible to end the practice of using people as human bait to catch and test the black flies ...

Chagas disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is one of the most important yet neglected parasitic infections in the world.

Today we have modern antiparasitic drugs. But 130 years ago, our forebears had nothing but quack cures and prayers to drive out tapeworms.

Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by sand flies, has long challenged veterinarians and public health experts ...

A new study offers an innovative way to track the spread of leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease affecting both animals and ...

Over 60% of human infectious diseases come from animals. Learn what zoonotic diseases are, how they are transmitted, and why ...