Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is parasitic disease, and 2nd-leading infectious cause of blindness ...

The European Medicines Agency’s positive opinion for ivermectin-albendazole for treating soil-transmitted helminth infections ...

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

A parasitic worm infection, also known as a helminth infection, occurs when parasitic worms, or helminths, infect the body.

The parasitic infection presents as gastroenteritis, which usually comes with cramping abdominal pain, fever, watery diarrhea ...

Sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis, is a parasitic disease that can be fatal if left untreated.It's caused by the bite of an infected tsetse fly, which is found in sub-Saharan ...

Biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside have received a $3.7 million grant from the National ...

The WA Health Department has confirmed a startling link between rising rates of a parasitic stomach bug and overseas travel, ...

A new study from the Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble characterized the structure of an important trypanosomal protein ...

Animal parasitic disease has characteristics of easy infection and transmission diversity, this makes it to become a major disease to wildlife. Although ...