The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) has received notification from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that its laboratory confirmed three unrelated cases of angiostrongyliasis, or...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 A ten-year-old child from Malappuram district in Kerala state in southwestern India has died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by infection with the parasite,...

The parasitic disease, Chagas disease, and the vector, the kissing bug, have been in US media a lot recently after the CDC published an MMWR about finding the bug in Delaware. My guest today is currently...

The number of cases caused by Leishmania, a parasite carried by the sandfly, mainly found in tropical and subtropical areas and in countries around the Mediterranean, has increased in Sweden, according...

For the first time, Alaska health officials reported a case of the parasitic infection, angiostrongyliasis, aka rat lungworm disease. The case was in a traveler to Hawaii where it is endemic–18...

The University of Michigan health blog recently reported on a Acanthamoeba case in a Lansing , Michigan woman. She was initially diagnosed as having pink eye; however, things got worse and after going...

Officials with the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in Karachi, Pakistan is reporting the death of a 21-year old student from the Orangi Town area due to the “brain-eating amoeba”,...

Quebec health officials reported an outbreak of the parasitic infection, toxoplasmosis, in a at least six hunters who consumed the deer meat they killed during a hunting trip to the United States last...

Schistosomiasis is an acute and chronic disease caused by trematode parasites, which health authorities say more than 200 million people are infected worldwide and in terms of impact, this disease is...

The Public Health Agency of Sweden, or Folkhälsomyndigheten have reviewed some recent human Echinococcus multilocularis infection and conclude that some recent infections cannot be ruled out that they...