If you have raccoons around your property, you might need to employ this method. Raccoons tend to poop in communal, pungent ...

A rare parasitic infection that is linked to raccoons has been detected in two people in Southern California, the Los Angeles ...

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

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

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is looking into two human cases of a rare parasitic infection that comes ...

The public health department says the risk is still very low, but they’re urging the public to steer clear of raccoons for ...

After maturing in the raccoon’s intestines, the worms produce eggs that are then passed with the animal’s feces, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After two to ...

Baylisascaris procyonis is a type of parasite that lives in the intestines of raccoons. It does not make them sick, but their feces can carry the parasite’s eggs. The two cases of the disease ...

Two people in Los Angeles have been infected with a raccoon-borne parasite that can burrow into the brain and cause blindness. The individuals, who were not identified, live in the South Bay ...

Baylisascaris procyonis is a type of parasite that lives in the intestines of raccoons; it does not make them sick, but their feces can carry the parasite’s eggs. The two cases of the disease ...

and can be spread through water or other materials contaminated with raccoon feces. “The eggs of this worm get into the person, begin to develop, find themselves in a strange place, and then ...