Lucknow: Washing hands, cleaning food ingredients thoroughly and drinking safe water can prevent worm infections in brain.

Deadly brain infections once associated with rare summer swims in southern lakes are now appearing in places that never ...

Brain parasite cysts contain multiple active forms, not dormant cells, explaining treatment resistance and reactivation patterns.

People typically become infected with toxoplasmosis by eating undercooked meat or through contact with contaminated soil or cat feces. Once inside the body, the parasite is known for its ability to ...

As the winter cold season arrived and high school volleyball season approached, a stuffy nose and a headache were annoyances ...

A parasite that lives permanently in the brains of millions may not be as uniformly dormant as scientists once thought.

“It doesn’t happen often, but a sinus infection can spread beyond the nasal passages and into the brain,” said Elizabeth Liptrap, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery. “When ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells, leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found. In the premiere of HBO's big budget ...

Researchers find long COVID brain effects vary by country, suggesting many cases may go underrecognized in lower-resource ...

The family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr is speaking out about the child's recent death from a brain-eating amoeba. In a new conference Tuesday in Columbia, South Carolina, Carr's parents said they ...

The man had been waterskiing on the Lake of the Ozarks in the days before contracting the infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...