Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain, are potentially the most damaging and the ...

Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

Pork can carry taenia solium larvae, a parasitic tapeworm. After eating infected pork, the larvae get into body tissues where ...

Using an engineered form of Toxoplasma gondii - a common parasite found in cat poo, scientists tried to deliver proteins to the brain in mice. Earlier, it was not easy to deliver targeted ...

Moving forward, the team plans to zoom in on T. solium by examining the effects of the parasite at different life stages on human brain slices and the interplay between the parasite and the ...

A 29-year-old New Jersey man died in September of a brain-eating parasite after swimming in a wave pool at a Texas resort, and now, seven months later, his mother has filed a wrongful death ...

Is the urge to start a company caused by a brain parasite? In Yellowstone National Park, a lone wolf usually ends up dead. Gray wolves typically live and hunt in packs, but sometimes a pack member ...

But every so often, it’s an indicator of a much more nightmarish scenario: parasites setting up shop in your brain after previously incubating in rodents, slugs, and snails. This was ...

The fluid underwent a diagnostic test, and finally the woman had an answer — she had parasites in her brain. Doctors discovered Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a parasitic species of roundworm also ...

People are coming together to rally behind the family of a Pryor boy with a rare infection caused by a parasite called ...