The Chagas disease has been found in 5 states. — -- A rare parasitic infection called Chagas disease has been gaining headlines in recent weeks after cases of the infection were reported in at ...

Two children who attended a Liverpool primary school which was battling an outbreak of an infectious stomach bug have died. The pair, five and six, were pupils at Millstead Primary School, in Everton, ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -During the summer of 2020, entomologists from the Nebraska Department of Agriculture and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Entomology identified a species of kissing ...

The Health Department's lead entomologist says Indiana's kissing bugs move off hosts before defecating, making transmission ...

Cyclosporiasis can cause explosive diarrhea, but usually goes away on its own. Leafy greens like salad are among the leading causes of food poisoning in the US. A doubling in cases of a stomach ...

Researchers are studying the signaling pathway that leads the parasite responsible for Chagas disease to transform and reproduce. They follow that pathway from the beginning when an uninfected kissing ...

LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - You may have heard about the "kissing bug." While its name sounds friendly, its bite can be dangerous. "Kissing bugs do exist in Louisiana," said Dr. B.J. Foch, Department of ...

One day when she woke up, Eunice Kagweria had itchy pimple-like protrusions on her stomach and back. “It was such a unsightly mess on my skin,” she says. She had no other symptoms of illness but the ...

Scientists have found proof that a parasite still troubling oysters today was already up to its old tricks nearly half a ...

One day when she woke up, Eunice Kagweria had itchy pimple-like protrusions on her stomach and back. “It was such a unsightly mess on my skin,” she says. She had no other symptoms of illness but the ...