Health chiefs have sounded the alarm over ready-to-eat salad bags due to potentially-deadly contamination fears, amid an alarming rise in food poisoning outbreaks across the UK. Inspections have found ...

WACO, Texas -- A 10-year-old girl who was hospitalized after she contracted a brain-eating amoeba has died. Lily Mae Avant died early Monday morning, her family confirmed. Lily's family told WFAA the ...

People may become infected when they eat unwashed produce hiding the mollusks. Home-growing food and keeping pets also raises the risk.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, explains in a paper published in PLOS Pathogens how a microscopic parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can significantly ...

The U.S. has confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating parasite in a human, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Monday. New World screwworm (NWS) is a species of parasitic flies ...