Unwashed produce harbors harmful bacteria, pesticides, and parasites, posing health risks. Outbreaks linked to contaminated ...

Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases spread by mosquitoes. Each year, hundreds of millions of people worldwide are infected and half a million people die from the disease. While mainland ...

Is cat ownership both a trope of a childless woman and an actual cause for fewer children being born? Studies show that a ...

Sequoia Park Zoo has announced the successful hatching of a new Crested Screamer chick, born to Boris and Ivana Screamalot.

Two species of fish-borne parasites have been found in freshwater fish routinely caught for consumption. Researchers say people could be eating the fish ...

Chagas disease is often called a silent killer because many people don't realize they have it until complications from the ...

While Lyme disease gets the most attention – and affects the most people – there are other tick-borne bacteria and diseases ...

Pathogen turns off key genes to become invisible to the immune system, posing a hidden threat in disease transmission.

Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century. An analysis from 1992 noted a steady decrease in sperm counts and quality since the 1940s.

In Southern California, a quiet but widespread public health risk has taken root in the region’s freshwater fishing spots.

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...