The disease we know as Malaria was thought to be caused by breathing “bad air” (mal aria) that emanates from swamps. This was ...

Malaria infected 282 million people in 2024, compared with 238 million in 2018, and the death toll climbed from 575,000 to ...

UW researchers find a dangerous tapeworm in Washington coyotes, raising potential concerns for dogs and humans.

A dangerous tapeworm, not found in Pacific Northwest wildlife until this year, is more widespread than researchers expected.

New research has uncovered that Leishmania parasites engage in widespread genetic exchange, overturning assumptions of primarily clonal reproduction, while malaria parasites deploy mRNA to disrupt ...

Organoids and engineered systems are transforming malaria research, improving drug discovery and understanding of Plasmodium ...

A tiny tapeworm never previously detected in the Pacific Northwest has been discovered in more than a third of urban coyotes ...

Understanding the Transmission LandscapeLiver flukes, particularly Clonorchis sinensis and Opisthorchis species, represent a significant yet often ...

Preliminary testing has revealed that the five bears who died at a northern B.C. wildlife rescue in Smithers last week were ...

Western Washington is home to an abundance of urban wildlife, animals that live and somehow thrive at the intersection of ...

For many families in Asia, Latin America and the Pacific, malaria is not a one-time illness. Plasmodium vivax, one of the five parasites that cause malaria in humans, has a troubling habit of ...