SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A bug that you’ve probably seen around could be carrying a dangerous disease. It’s nicknamed the “kissing bug”. WTOC sat down with a doctor at Memorial Health. The Centers for ...

Rates of babesiosis, a tick-borne parasitic disease, increased an average of 9% per year in the United States between 2015 and 2022, and 4 in 10 patients were found to be co-infected with another tick ...

Ten people, including a 10-year-old child, fell ill last year after eating undercooked bear meat at a North Carolina barbecue, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says a potentially deadly condition could become an endemic illness in the U.S. A parasitic infection called Chagas disease is transmitted through ...

UNDATED (CNN Newsource/WFMY/KCRA/KCAL/KCBS/WKRC) - Infected black bear meat left several members of a family sick with parasitic worms, hospitalizing three of them ...

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Health leaders from around the world are marking the first ever World Parasite Awareness Day, a collective effort to raise awareness about the increasing ...

Are "kissing bugs," the bugs that transmit a potentially deadly parasitic disease that has been spreading in the U.S., in Illinois? A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

In a new study published in Nature, scientists have successfully developed genetically modified mosquitoes in Tanzania that ...