Discover the most common diseases in budgies or small parrots, along with their causes, symptoms, and how they might spread.

Do you also keep scratching your head again and again? If your scalp has been attacked by lice or nits due to dirt, then ...

Head lice. Almost every person will have to deal with head-lice at one time or another. It’s really doesn’t have to do with cleanliness as some may think. These lice are tiny parasites that live in ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Alyce by emailing a.collins@newsweek.com A Generation Z woman known as "the Lice Lady" has become an internet sensation due to her unconventional ...

And new research shows that they are becoming increasingly difficult to kill. The bugs known as super lice have developed genetic mutations that make them resistant to many of the over-the-counter ...

Hadi Farrokhzadeh, a visiting scholar at Virginia Tech’s Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center (AREC), is conducting new research using a fungus in the Cordycipitaceae family to ...

Dwelling beneath the soil in the American Southwest are coccidioides fungus spores (C. immitis, C. posadasii). Inhaling these spores can lead to valley fever, also known as coccidioidomycosis. While ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A dangerous fungus is spreading across the world and in parts of the United States, and it not just happening in hospitals. The fungus, called Coccidioides, is drug-resistant and ...

A new study from researchers at The University of Manchester has found that the risk of fungal infection in Europe has increased The aspergillus species can cause fatal human brain infections ...

The hit TV series, ‘The Last of Us’, has captured the world’s imagination with its terrifying story of a zombie apocalypse caused by a mind-controlling fungus. In the show, a mutated fungus ...

This adaptability gives the fungus a unique advantage when colonising the human body, particularly the lungs. Professor Elaine Bignell from Exeter University’s MRC Centre for Medical Mycology ...

Inhaling its spores does not make everyone ill, but the deadly fungus can be particularly threatening to those with conditions such as asthma, cystic fibrosis or a weakened immune system.