Scientists don’t know why cyclosporiasis, a tropical diarrheal disease, is spreading more and more from domestic sources.

Infections caused by a microscopic parasite called Cyclospora have been reported in at least 18 states, with numbers continuing to climb. Contaminated fresh produce is typically the source of the ...

Lurking in the shadows of many ecosystems are animals whose main motivations are, quite literally, to hijack the bodies of ...

What is cyclospora? The culprit is Cyclospora cayetanensis, a single-celled parasite too small to see, which causes a ...

But available information shows only a small number of documented outbreaks in the last 20 years have surpassed 1,000 cases.

About 1 in 3 people worldwide have been infected with a microscopic parasite called Toxoplasma gondii—or simply "toxo"—which ...

If there was one word you wouldn’t want to hear in front of the word “diarrhea,” it’d be “explosive.” Unfortunately, it’s a ...

More than half of New York City's free-roaming cats are infected with parasites that can spread to people, according to a new ...

A collaborative investigation by the CDC and FDA into a Cyclosporiasis outbreak has verified that 145 individuals in 17 ...

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