Roundworms harbor viruses, which could be responsible for these parasites' painful symptoms in humans, scientists theorize.

Symptoms may include nausea ... Dr. Muntu Davis said that simple precautions can be taken by humans to avoid getting raccoon ...

Scientists from Rutgers University and the University of Glasgow are suggesting that a protein derived from the ...

While raccoons themselves will not fall sick, their feces can carry the roundworms’ eggs. Humans can then become ... After being infected, symptoms can take up to a week or so to develop and ...

New research reveals why paternal mitochondrial DNA is banished during development, potentially paving the way for new ...

If you're going to eat a bear, make sure it's not rare.

The Center of Disease Control reported that 10 people developed symptoms of a worm infection after eating rare bear meat.

Scientists have long wondered why animals get the DNA inside their mitochondria, the cell's energy center, only from their ...

Intestinal parasites are small organisms that live in human intestines and feed off the host Read on to know how papaya seeds ...

Of those 22 who reported dining on the underdone meat, 10 experienced the signs and symptoms of trichinellosis, a disease caused by the larvae of parasitic roundworms of the genus Trichinella.

An outbreak of a rare parasitic disease has been linked to undercooked bear meat eaten by dozens of people at a gathering in ...