The notorious disease known as sleeping sickness can lurk inside a host for months or even years before serious symptoms ...

A stealthy parasite behind deadly sleeping sickness has been caught using an astonishing trick to evade the human immune system. Credit: Shutterstock A deadly parasite stays hidden by shredding its ...

A deadly parasite responsible for sleeping sickness has been found using a surprisingly precise trick to stay hidden in the ...

The human gut hosts a wide variety of microbial species including bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Intestinal parasites were ...

Amy Corral is an award winning investigative journalist based in Los Angeles. She joined CBS News & Stations as a national investigative producer in 2022. Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los ...

Researchers found that intestinal tuft cells signal to crypt enterochromaffin cells by releasing acetylcholine, triggering serotonin release and activating a gut-to-brain vagal pathway during type 2 ...

A veterinary microbiologist and antimicrobial resistance researcher at the University of Tennessee has received a major ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a growing threat to human, animal, and environmental health, necessitating integrated surveillance systems to effectively address this challenge. Globally, many ...

Parasitology is the scientific discipline that investigates parasites—organisms that live in or on a host and derive resources at the host’s expense—along with their hosts and the environments that ...