Dear daktari, I am a dairy farmer in Kakamega County. I want to know more about internal and external parasites and their possible effects on my animals which are my main source of income. I would ...

Cattle producers are rethinking traditional parasite control methods, shifting toward more strategic treatments to prevent drug resistance, Kansas State University beef cattle experts say. “In the ...

Rajshekhar Gaji was staring at something that should not exist. Under his microscope, parasites that should have been thriving were instead dying—completely unable to survive without a protein his lab ...

Dear Dr. Othieno, Thanks so much for your insightful articles on animal health. I am a farmer from Kajiado County. I have lately noticed that many flies disturb my animals, I am not sure I can do ...

Malaria remains a persistent public health burden, with Plasmodium falciparum causing the most dangerous form of malaria and the most lethal infections. Its capacity to develop resistance to current ...

When a parasite infects a host, it can manipulate host behavior, which may help spread the parasite to new hosts, or enable the parasite to complete its life cycle. Parasitic worms known as hairworms ...

Amid a cyclospora outbreak in the US, eyes have turned back to recent agency changes at the CDC when parasite was taken off required monitoring.

Scientists are turning to genomics to better understand the epidemiology of malaria and to inform control and elimination interventions and strategies. In the Lake Victoria region of Kenya, malaria ...

Parasites getting you down? Then take Prozac – if you’re a fish, that is. A behaviour-altering parasitic worm has been found to stymie its host’s production of serotonin – the same brain chemical that ...