Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. There are more parasites than any other organism on Earth—which is one of the reasons Emmitt Jolly finds ...
Researchers at LMU in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg have discovered how ...
Scientists have found over a dozen parasitic worms in the eyes of a black bear, renewing fears that humans could face an emerging danger from the tiny worms that can cause blindness. The black bear ...
A worm-like parasite lived in a woman's eye for two years, and doctors believe it entered her body after she ate crocodile meat. The infected 28-year-old woman, from the town of Basankusu in the ...
A new species of tiny parasitic worm has been discovered, and it could be used to kill insect pests in place of chemical pesticides. When new species of these worms are discovered, scientists get ...
With victims numbering in the millions, malaria is an infectious disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying the ...