Analysis from the CDC has found that Leishmania mexicana, a tropical, flesh-eating parasite that causes skin sores and can create long-term scars, has likely been spreading locally through sand ...

A Seattle woman with a sinus infection tragically died after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba. The 69-year-old ... on the bridge of her nose and raw skin near her nostrils, originally believed ...

Here are some of the most common bacteria found in pools, backed by studies and experts: Pseudomonas aeruginosa: This pesky bacterium is notorious for causing skin infections like folliculitis ...

That led his team to scour the DNA of other parasites to see if any of them also had genes that encode rhomboid enzymes. They found that the dysentery-causing amoeba Entamoeba histolytica contains ...