Bedbugs are sneaky creatures. They typically bite while you're asleep. And the itchy, red marks they leave behind will often ...

Tick bites can look very different from person to person, Dr. Melissa Levoska, an assistant professor of dermatology at the ...

Tick bites Ticks are small, blood-sucking parasites that attach to your skin when they bite. You may pick up a tick by spending time in tall grass or wooded areas, such as when you're hiking.

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

When the mosquito bites a victim ... But some egg-laying parasites go more than just skin deep. Tapeworms, for example, invade your intestines. Adults can stretch longer than a bowling lane ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

When an infected fly bites a person, it regurgitates this plug, thereby injecting its saliva and the parasite-containing gel into the person's skin. Rogers and his colleagues determined that in ...

A 21-year-old woman became dizzy and hard of hearing before doctors found a parasite in her ear ... doctors saw something was lodged in the woman’s skin. Buried in the skin of her ear canal ...

An excess of peptide can swamp out parasite–epithelial interactions, thus preventing the parasite from developing in the mosquito. The new work has taken this principle one step further with the ...