About 3% of women and a total of 3.7 million persons in the U.S. population have Trichomonas vaginalis, a sexually transmitted parasitic infection curable with a single dose of the right antibiotics, but most infected people never get tested or treat...

Toxoplasmosis is the 2nd leading cause of death from foodborne illness in the United States.

Each year in the United States at least 70 people are blinded by the parasite that causes toxocariasis; most of them are children.

More than 300,000 people in the United States are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease–and most don’t know it.

Cysticercosis is a potentially fatal and preventable neglected parasitic infection caused by the larval form of Taenia solium. Patients with symptomatic disease usually have signs and symptoms of neurocysticercosis, which commonly manifest as seizure...