The malaria parasite is still killing almost half a million people every year. A project has now identified a gene that holds out the prospect of a safe, effective live vaccine. The study is ...

The grave and parasite egg were discovered by the Euphrates River in Syria, where agricultural irrigation systems were used up to 7,500 years ago.

Fatal attraction An animal can become infected with Toxoplasma by eating another infected animal, or through contact with egg-like cysts of the parasite that are shed in cat feces.

Archaeologists discovered a parasite egg near the pelvis of a child skeleton in northern Syria and say it dates back to a time when ancient societies first used irrigation systems to grow crops ...

LONDON (Reuters) – The discovery of a schistosomiasis parasite egg in a 6,200-year-old grave in Syria may be the earliest evidence that agricultural irrigation systems in the Middle East ...

Parasite’s Criterion Collection Blu-ray and DVD have an Oct. 27 release date. The cover artwork features a clever hidden meaning that references a key twist related to Morse code in the Oscar ...

As It Happens What can parasite eggs preserved in medieval poop tell us about human history? Most people don’t get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces.

In one individual, we found the egg of a terminal spined schistosome, which is a flatworm parasite that causes schistosomiasis, also called bilharzia.

I knew exactly who to send them to for identification help: Chelsea Wood, a parasite ecologist at the University of Washington—and perhaps the world’s only person who uses words like ...