Long before modern pharmaceuticals, our ancestors turned to plants to find cures for ailments from infections to parasites to ...
Hundreds of non-native animal & plant species live in Florida. They prey on native critters & damage native ecosystems.
Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...
ALTOS DE CAMPANA NATIONAL PARK, Panama — Brian Gratwicke’s lunch box was full of frogs. Kneeling on the muddy rainforest floor, the biologist opened his red Coleman cooler and scooped one up. It was a ...
A Utah-based artificial intelligence company and scientists at ARUP Laboratories on Tuesday announced the development of an AI tool that detects intestinal parasites in stool samples quickly and more ...
In the 1950s, archaeologists excavated the Cave of the Dead Children in Mexico and found a number of ancient artifacts, including fossilized human feces. Now, researchers have used modern technology ...
Ranchers and health officials are increasing their efforts to spread awareness and protect livestock from New World screwworms — a flesh-eating parasite native to the Caribbean and Central America. A ...
The first human case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite in the U.S. has been identified in Maryland, in a person who recently travelled to El Salvador. U.S. health officials are assuring the ...
(CNN) — A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a spokesman from the US Department of Health and Human Services said.
The first human case of a flesh-eating parasite has been detected in the U.S., NBC News reported Aug. 25. The case involved a Maryland person who had recently traveled to El Salvador. The CDC ...