Parasite News

Chimpanzees have been studied for the first time relation to the incidences of malaria. The conclusion is that chimps can contract malaria just as easily as people and have similar survival rates if untreated.

A new study has shown that transmission of malaria via mosquitoes to humans can be interrupted by using a strain of the bacteria Wolbachia in the insects.

An international team of scientists in Seattle, Wash., U.S., and Cordoba and San Martin, Argentina, have uncovered a surprising new role for one type of immune cell in controlling the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.

A new study of tapeworm DNA provides clues as to the possible targets on which currently licensed drugs could act against the parasite.

Researchers from Arkansas State University have discovered a parasitic crustacean which infects fish in the coral reefs of the eastern Caribbean. They named it after Bob.

Scientists have bred mosquitoes which are unable to infect people with the malaria parasite. They hope that such populations of malaria-free mosquitoes can enter the ecosystem and help to curb the population of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

A new organism has been discovered in a pile of slime buried in a lake in Norway. The organism is so unusual that the scientific team which has examined it genetically are declaring that it should have its own location on the tree of life.

Moscow - As the United States Congress was deliberating and coming to an agreement on the $2.4 trillion debt limit increase, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke to pro-Kremlin youth activists where he called the U.S. an economic "parasite."

Scientists have described an unusual case of reversible parasitism between insects: the wasp Dinocampus coccinellae takes control of a ladybug that carries an egg the wasp lays in its abdomen, bodyguards the larval cocoon, and, maybe, gets its life back.

One of the latest diet crazes in Hong Kong, the practice of eating the giant intestinal Ascaris worms has become so popular that the nation's Department of Health decided to make a public statement in opposition to it.