These pictures of common bug bites can help you figure out what bit you, and how you should seek treatment.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Ugandan and international collaborators, report that ...

For me, the month of September comes with a creeping sense of dread: the inevitable email from the primary school secretary announcing that the classroom has a new visitor: Pediculus humanus capitis, ...

In the latest inspection reports published by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), Kilkenny Care Centre was deemed to have had a "poorly coordinated" response to an outbreak of scabies ...

The Utah State Correctional Facility - plagued by scabies outbreaks, swarms of mosquitoes, drug smuggling and violent attacks - is the prison where Tyler Robinson may spend the rest of his life if ...

West Nile virus has been detected in mosquito samples in New Bedford, according to a community announcement. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health notified local health officials that the ...

Lice checks were a dreaded part of my childhood — I remember anxiously waiting for the nurse to call my name for a checkup, hoping a call home wouldn’t follow (sometimes, I wasn’t so lucky). Head lice ...

A Florida Republican has filed a bill to make the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin available over-the-counter for human use. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ivermectin was controversially touted as a cure ...

Dangerous Zika Infected Mosquito Skin Bite. Leishmaniasis, Encephalitis, Yellow Fever, Dengue, Malaria Disease, Mayaro or Zika Virus Infectious Culex Mosquito Parasite Insect Macro. nechaev-kon Getty ...

Portage County has reported its first human case of West Nile virus for the year. The virus is transmitted to humans through bites from infected mosquitoes, not from person to person. While most ...