Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

Guinea, a country in West Africa has successfully eradicated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) ...

Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...

The New World screwworm was eradicated from the state decades ago, but now officials are warning it may be poised to return.

However, this worm-infested jowar was supplied to fair price shops in and around Ballari district. This came to light when Upa Lokayukta Justice B Veerappa visited the godown of Unit-2 of KSWC on ...

"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were able to thrive under harsh conditions," says lead author Dr. Julio Mercader Florín, PhD, a professor in both the Faculty of Arts and the ...

Orangutans live only in the jungles of Indonesia. But humans live pretty much everywhere. Our species has spread across frozen tundras, settled on mountaintops and called other extreme ...

putting dogs at constant risk of infestation,” says Dr Dent. The hidden threat of Intestinal worms The most common worms that infect dogs (and humans through their pets), are roundworms and hookworms ...

A Chinese-linked malware, known as PlugX, has been successfully wiped from thousands of infected computers worldwide, the US Department of Justice and the FBI said on Tuesday. Justice officials say ...

Kia Australia has launched a new campaign via Innocean Worldwide, positioning its new electric vehicle range as the ultimate cars, even in a zombie apocalypse. The commercials, which launched during ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...