A relatively rare tapeworm has popped up in several patients in Alberta, Canada in the past few years, which may not sound like much; however, the only other human case in Canada was in 1928 in Manitoba. The parasite is called Echinococcus multilocularis and it appearance in Alberta has caught the attention of some infectious …

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University of Alberta scientists are alerting the public to a potentially lethal tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis which infects humans through the feces of coyotes and dogs.

France has launched a special smartphone application to track a rocketing plague of ticks, which cause over 30,000 cases of Lyme disease par year and pose a threat to thousands of British holidaymakers who take to the French countryside in summer.

'No one had ever heard of it': Woman dies from rare tick-borne virus.

These ticks may have been an example of one native species in Alaska.

More polar bears on land have been encountering more people in the Arctic, a perfect storm of dangerous conditions, one scientist says.

The state Department of Health announced Wednesday that a Saratoga County resident died in recent months after contracting a rare tick-borne illness known as Powassan Virus.

A major wildlife rehabilitation facility is bracing for the devastating impact of the B.C. wildfires on birds and mammals.

Conservation officers believe the same bear was involved in two recent encounters. The most recent involved a motorcyclist forced to back up by the approaching bear.

Community members in Paulatuk, N.W.T., captured rare images this week of two moose wading in the Arctic Ocean.

Two people were found to have plague this week. What does the disease look like in the modern world, and why does it keep happening in New Mexico?

Across a growing swath of North America, these animals are dying from a mysterious disorder called chronic wasting disease. It’s caused not by a virus or bacterium, but a deformed protein called a prion.

Chronic wasting disease long thought not to affect human health.

Is climate change reducing the quantity and quality of Alaska's Dall sheep habitat? That's the hypothesis being tested by two researchers.

Spotted a rat at the Kodiak Airport while doing intertidal surveys.

Experts say brown or grizzly bears attack and kill people far more often in Alaska than black bears. Authorities say black bears killed a 16-year-old runner at Bird Ridge over the weekend and a Pogo Mine contractor Monday.

Black bears typically stay near the treeline — but what was this guy doing so far up North, away from it?

The 400-pound young boar attacked the 6-month-old puppy Wednesday morning, according to troopers and state biologists.