Here are 10 parasites that can infect humans, and everything you need to ... But hookworms were worthy of their own entry on our list because they are a bit scarier than other roundworms.

When animals on the CITES protection list are seized by the authorities ... It isn't a pleasant role, but parasites are sometimes called on as expert witnesses in cases of animal or human neglect.

The movie imagines mutated parasites taking over the bodies of humans to wreak havoc on an idyllic town. Breathe easy, though—in reality, Cymothoa exigua, the parasitic isopod in question ...

Watch our stop-motion video to learn how the sneaky Schistosoma parasite changes form, travelling between hosts and causing irreversible damage when it sets up home in humans. The Museum's SCAN ...

African great apes were the original host to the parasite. But a chance genetic mutation about 50,000 years ago turned it into a threat to humans, experts have found. The findings, published in ...

The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand the mechanism of drug-resistance evolution and build a strategy to delay it? So far ...