Recent Cyclospora outbreaks have renewed public attention to foodborne parasites, but they also highlight a broader reality: ...

Prolonged dry spells or droughts can sometimes reduce aquatic diseases, many of which affect people. Yet other times, water ...

The nationwide cyclospora outbreak is very likely a result of sewage contamination in the food supply, according to ...

The return is reviving memories of a pest that once inflicted enormous losses on American agriculture. In the 1950s, New ...

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Though Michigan residents are still getting sick with the diarrheal parasite cyclosporiasis, cases are declining.

The parasite’s spread can become a self-perpetuating cycle. Cyclospora is found only in humans, where it replicates in the ...

At least 10 such cases, filed in various courts around the country and picked up by Law.com Radar, demonstrate the potential for liability at multiple points in a food supply chain. Fast-food chain ...

Massachusetts has now witnessed more than 100 cases this summer of cyclospora, a parasite that causes intestinal illness when individuals consume food or water contaminated with microscopic traces of ...

The screwworm flies can lay eggs on any warm-blooded animal, including people. Those eggs develop into parasitic larvae, or maggots, that feed on the surrounding flesh as they burrow deeper.

Health experts are trying to understand how the food-borne parasite can cause symptoms that come and go, sometimes for weeks.

Since the flesh-eating screwworm fly reinvaded Mexico in 2024, human cases of the voracious parasite have been mounting.