The patient, a French man in his 60s with leukemia, died earlier this month. Health officials say the risk to the public is ...

Some of the female flies pulled from the man’s eyes were plump with embryonated eggs. Doctors noted that coiled larvae began ...

For nearly a century, people in distant parts of the world have reported a bizarre experience after eating certain wild mushrooms: seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny, colorful humans moving ...

A study finds the parasitoid wasp Tachinaephagus zealandicus to be a promising candidate for targeting the New World screwworm via biological control.

The main symptoms of Shamonda Virus in animals are acute diarrhea, “a brief and transient” fever, a fall in digestive ...

The first known human case of Shamonda virus was reported by France on Thursday. The patient has died, but the World Health ...

France has reported the first documented human case of the Shamonda virus, which was previously only detected in animals.

Ever wonder what goes on inside the brain of a worm—how it processes information, responds to stimuli and perceives the world ...

Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. She previously worked at "60 Minutes," CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program. A troubling warning from a former ...

After watching a space documentary, reproductive biologist Nicole McPherson got a curious question from her husband on their drive to work: “Do you think humans could reproduce in space?” “I ...

In the fast-growing field of data annotation, workers in a small city in south India train A.I. to improve how it performs tasks traditionally done by people. By Jeremy W. Peters and Hari Kumar ...

Since the flesh-eating screwworm fly reinvaded Mexico in 2024, human cases of the voracious parasite have been mounting. According to a July surveillance report from Mexico’s Ministry of Health, there ...