(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Parasites are ubiquitous. They feed on virtually every animal and even on each other. Yet, for all the parasites' collective contributions to biomass and biodiversity, ...

Can’t figure out why you’ve been feeling off? If you’ve been dealing with fatigue, bloating, brain fog, or digestive drama, ...

Likely as not, there is someone out there who practiced every pandemic precaution only to become infected with Cyclospora in the past month. The small intestine infection usually announces itself with ...

While the recent inclusion of parasites into food-web studies has highlighted the role of parasites as consumers, there is accumulating evidence that parasites can also serve as prey for predators.

“Tropical parasites in our food? No way!” most Americans think. It’s time to think again. In May Hawaii’s Department of Health announced three more cases of rat lungworm in recent visitors. Already ...

A new study sheds light on how parasites, often overlooked, can dramatically affect the balance between predator and prey populations. Researchers developed a groundbreaking mathematical framework ...

Doctors warn that the parasite cleanse trend misleads patients, causing health risks and delaying proper diagnosis of ...

Despite the ubiquity of parasites and pathogens in all ecosystems, our understanding of their significance in mediating predator-prey interactions, primary production, energy flow and nutrient cycling ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Parasites affect interactions among species in food webs and should be considered in any analysis of the structure, dynamics or resilience ...

A study published in the International Journal of Cancer suggests that exposure to a common parasite toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) may be associated with a risk of glioma brain cancer. T. gondii is ...

USDA researchers have confirmed the absence in the commercial pork supply of trichinella, a parasitic worm "that once posed a major food safety risk,” the department’s Agricultural Research Service ...