The parasite that causes the disease lives in the intestines of raccoons and can cause serious illness in humans.

All birds need regular deworming to protect them from internal parasites. The most common parasites to affect avians include ...

A rare parasitic infection known as raccoon roundworm has been confirmed in Los Angeles. The infection, Baylisascaris ...

take a fresh sample of Frankie’s stool to your veterinarian twice yearly for testing. Research shows that as many as half of ...

While most animals can’t tolerate the region’s dryness and cold, some microbes and invertebrates, including roundworms and water bears, thrive in this frozen desert. Water bears, or tardigrades, are ...

A fecal impaction is a large, hard mass of stool that gets stuck so badly in your colon or rectum that you can’t push it out. You may also be unable to sense or respond when stool is in your rectum.

Jung Hae-in and Jung So-min are no strangers to love stories. But portraying the romance of childhood friends who cross paths as adults in the K-drama “Love Next Door” is a matter of the ...

This is because UC affects the rectum, which plays an important role in holding in stool. “When the rectum is inflamed, we can see urgency, diarrhea, and blood in the stool,” she said.

Blood in your baby's poop could be caused by a medical problem like an infection or constipation. It is important to keep in mind, though, that red stools aren't always caused by bleeding. Some ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Lake County Sheriff’s Department initially named the suspect Dimas Gabriel Yanez but later clarified on Tuesday, Sept. 3, that the 26-year-old’s last name is Yanes.

Bowel cancer has been catapulted into the spotlight in recent years. Not only have there been a number of high profile deaths — such as influencer Dame Deborah James — a series of studies have ...

Scientists have discovered a virus that caused a nationwide die-off of superworms, a common food for birds, reptiles, other pets and, more and more so, even for humans as an alternative protein ...