No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

Three states have legalized over-the-counter sales of ivermectin, but people should only take it for approved uses with ...

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A parasitic worm may raise the risk of cervical cancer through several mechanisms, scientists have found, although HPV ...

As the Shenzhou-20 manned spacecraft and the Long March-2F Y20 carrier rocket stand ready at the launch site on ...

You might have ended up watching people eat goldfish for fun as a prank, but have you ever thought of probing into this bizarre habit of eating a goldfish as one of the regularly eaten food items?

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis -- a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm -- have been revealed.

The presence of disorder causes worms to speed up, not slow down – a surprising result with applications in robotics ...

Scientists have discovered two new methane-producing archaea in the human gut, revealing surprising links to inflammation and ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.