As infections surge across much of the U.S., public health investigators are working to figure out how this microscopic ...

Cyclospora parasite behind diarrhea outbreak is only transmitted through human feces. So how did it get into our food supply?

Officials say there is a link between iceberg lettuce from Mexico and the rash of stomach parasite cases across the U.S.

As cases of explosive diarrhea continue to rise across the US this summer, health officials are grappling with a longstanding ...

Hundreds of people across 17 states have been sickened by the parasitic infection, often transmitted by consuming produce contaminated with human feces.

In the fall of 2023, NIST's scientists in Charleston, South Carolina, received a special shipment of containers packed with baggies full of frozen human feces. Teams of scientists there and at an ...

The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoffs that ultimately find their way into rivers and lakes is a major public health hazard. As a result, it is imperative that water ...