The primary risk in Colorado comes from two closely related species: the American dog tick and the Rocky Mountain wood tick, state health officials said.

A Kaiser Permanente study of nearly 8,000 men shows that in mid- to late 2024, mpox was far more common than previously ...

Copious amounts of smelly, potentially harmful seaweed known as sargassum have washed up along the shores of South Florida.

Understanding genetics can help explain differences in disease susceptibility across populations, informing medical research ...

Gold prices are at an all-time high, and we are very worried. As disease ecologists, it's not the economic instability that ...

The parasitic flatworms attach themselves to waterfowl and snails before inadvertently penetrating human skin.

During the fourth week of April, about 114 out of every 100,000 emergency department visits nationwide were for tick bites.

Some birds and other animals are 'brood parasites' whose mothers leave their offspring with other species. A common reed ...

As of Thursday, at least six Americans from the hantavirus-infected cruise ship had returned home to four states.

The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would allow ivermectin to be sold to people without ...

The WHO has linked the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak to the Andes virus, a rare strain that can spread between people. The ...

The global landscape of parasitic zoonoses is undergoing a profound transformation. As approximately 60% of infectious and parasitic organisms capable of ...