Although no one wants to think about their cat having worms, intestinal parasites like tapeworms or roundworms in cats are quite common. A 2020 study found that nearly one-fourth of client-owned cats ...

Experts warn that sleeping with your cat may increase the risk of toxoplasmosis, a parasite that can infect humans without ...

Infection with a common parasite can seriously disrupt the brain function of intermediate hosts – potentially including humans – new research has found. Even when the number of neurons affected is ...

Remember when your mom told you to be careful cleaning the cat’s litter box? Well, that same parasite everyone’s been avoiding might actually be the next big thing in brain medicine. Scientists just ...

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...