Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have ...

They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them ...

Canine hookworms are becoming increasingly resistant to drugs across Australia, according to research published in the ...

Jimmy Carter hoped to outlive the Guinea worm — and he came achingly close. Carter helped lead a decades-long campaign ...

President Carter helped lead a global health effort to eradicate the Guinea worm, a painful parasite which once infected more than 3 million people a year. Cases now number about a dozen a year.

Why Do You Need Benadryl for Dogs? Dogs are curious and energetic, so it’s inevitable that some of them will wind up in some sticky situations. From running through some poison ivy to getting ...

Either way, it’s hard to watch Kodi, the ragged, hungry-eyed canine star of “Dog on Trial,” without sensing, whether by sheer good fortune or some mysterious process of empathy, a genuine ...

The invading reproductive female then begins to lay her own larvae and uses pheromones to direct the workers to feed and raise her young, Hatfield said. Once the cuckoo young are old enough ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall — the agency’s most serious risk level — for dog treats sold both online and in stores across 19 states. According to the ...