To ensure successful transmission and establish chronic infection, parasites must evade the host's immune system and delay the development of immunity. Maria Yazdanbakhsh and David Sacks discuss ...

By understanding their evolutionary history scientists may discover vulnerabilities that can be exploited to combat ...

But some egg-laying parasites go more than just skin deep ... But there are a bunch of other unsavory bugs that will lay eggs all over your body — on purpose. First up, the human botfly.

Some bugs, like ticks and kissing bugs ... Head lice Lice are tiny parasites that often live on human scalps. It's most common for children to get lice, and they mainly spread through head ...

Most of us have heard of bed bugs, the dreaded blood-sucking parasites that are so laborious to get rid of. My brother happens to be on his third extermination attempt at this moment. They've ...

Australian mistletoe has gone from being viewed as a parasite harming native trees to being a Robin Hood figure in the ...

Slimy, scary, "the size of a Buick" — we use a lot of terms to describe bugs, but "yummy" isn't usually one of them. We associate insect ingestion with reality television shows like Fear Factor ...

Parasites that burst forth from a vine. Others seem woven out of fantasy: translucent white ghosts, blooms born of fire.