A shocking new study shows that 90% of freshwater fish in Southern California may be carrying parasites that can infect ...

Toxoplasma gondii is an incredibly pervasive parasite that can infect pretty much any warm-blooded animal, taking up ...

A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the ...

Better well done than wormy! A stomach-turning image of a parasite infection embedded in the muscle of a human body shows the dangers a person can face if they consume undercooked pork. Emergency ...

Once inside the body, ... In 2022, Ralston and her team discovered another trick the parasite uses to survive. After biting human cells, it becomes resistant to the immune system.

An emergency doctor shared a gruesome CT, which highlighted the damage parasites can inflict upon a human body. According to the NY Post, Dr. Sam Ghali shared an image of a patient's leg muscles, ...

The tapeworm taenia solium enters the human body by ingesting the parasite’s larval cysts. These eggs can then develop into adult tapeworms in a human’s gut, usually around 5 to 12 weeks ...

Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms.Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it entirely.

Back in 2011, during her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia, Ralston observed the parasite under a microscope and found that it was actually taking bites out of human cells.