National and Kansas healthcare officials are warning people to watch out for possible signs of a flesh-eating parasite.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A parasitic infection called Chagas disease from so-called "kissing bugs" has made its way to California -- and it's causing some concern. The infection can spread in several ...
Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that transmit Chagas disease in the Borderlands. The bugs were collected near ...
Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that transmit Chagas disease in the Borderlands. The bugs were collected near ...
Living on a diet of blood requires some specific adaptations, such as a way to keep the food source flowing. To prevent their meal from turning into an indigestible clot, mosquitoes evolved very ...
Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or caterpillar — into zombie-like puppets that act against their own interests.