It was a movement in Kerala that first cast the spotlight on filariasis and began measures at several levels to eliminate the ...

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, resolving debates about their origins and anatomy. A research team from the Nanj ...

Due to increasing antimicrobial use, microbes – such as bacteria, fungi and parasites – have developed the ability to resist ...

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While it has been widely found that farmworkers bear the brunt of agricultural pesticide exposures in fields and outbuildings ...

At the heart of the Amazon, researchers are investigating a mysterious parasite which is devastating fish farms around the ...

A new study looking at deadly animal African trypanosomiasis has revealed how the parasite Trypanosoma congolense evades the ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis -- a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm -- have been revealed.

The defendant in the case is the head of the firm, Dmytro Borzykh, who used to be the right-hand man of Anatolii Matios, the ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis - a disease caused by parasitic worms and ...