When most travelers pack their bags for a trip, they're focused on sightseeing, food, and making memories – not the possibility of returning home with a rare illness. Unfortunately for some, ...

Imagine returning from a dream vacation, only to find yourself battling a mysterious illness that leaves doctors baffled. For one 30-year-old woman from New England, this nightmare became a reality ...

NEW YORK — A person who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm — the first reported U.S. case tied to travel to a country with a current outbreak. The Centers for Disease ...

The larvae, which can grow up to two-thirds of an inch long, feed on living tissue as they burrow deeper. HealthDay News — A Maryland resident has recovered after being diagnosed with New World ...

Health officials in Hawaii have confirmed nine cases of rat lungworm disease in the last three months, according to CNN. The rare disease is caused by a parasite known as Angiostrongylus cantonensis, ...

People are coming together to support a four-year-old Pryor boy with a rare parasitic infection that has caused a brain injury. The CDC says fewer than 25 people in the U.S. have had the disease.

Researchers from the University of Florida in Gainesville identified a potentially deadly, meningitis-inducing parasite across five counties in the state, according to a study published in the journal ...

A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a spokesman from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said.The U.S.

A rare amoeba caused Brooklyn McCasland to go blind in one eye — and she’s still struggling with the parasitic infection Kennedy News and Media Brooklyn McCasland was infected with a parasite in her ...

Two organ recipients have died from a rare encephalitis after receiving organs from a young man who died at University Medical Center in Tucson. The 27-year-old male organ donor was thought to have ...

(The Hill) — An unusually virulent type of toxoplasmosis is killing California sea otters — and may pose an eventual public health threat to other marine animals and to humans, a new study has found.