The CDC reports there have been 3 cases of hantavirus in Florida. Hantavirus has been found in cotton rats in Florida. There is no treatment for hantavirus. Patients receive supportive care.

Varroa Tech, a team of eight BYU students, won BYU's Student Innovator of the Year competition last week with its beehive parasite detector. The team met through the Crocker Innovation Fellowship ...

Known as the rat torture method, it originated in medieval Europe, a period of time that is remembered for its unique methods of torture and execution. While rats have been used as punishment ...

Abracadabra! From jellyfish cut to Joker, Lady Gaga is back with another hair transformation. This time, it's a razored bob with straight-across bangs just days before she does a double-duty gig ...

Five years ago, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho stood on the Oscars stage, stunned as his movie “Parasite” made history as the first non-English-language film to win best picture.

Already, drug resistance has emerged to all classes of antimalarial drugs. The disease is primarily spread through the bites of female Anopheles mosquitoes that are infected by Plasmodium parasites.

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. In recent decades, robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) has evolved from a niche innovation to a widely adopted technique across ...

Rat lungworm disease is caused by the body’s immunoresponse to the parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis. A. cantonensis begins its life cycle after a rat eats an infected snail or slug.

In 2015, 12 percent of the Academy was based outside America. By 2019, the year of Parasite‘s release, it was more than 25 percent, with members hailing from 75 countries across six continents.

Angiostrongyliasis, more commonly known as rat lungworm disease, has been a growing concern over the last couple of years for Hawaii’s residents and visitors alike. Caused by a roundworm parasite, it ...