Texas health officials are urging families to safely wash, handle and cook produce as Cyclospora cases rise.

Simply washing fruits and vegetables with water might not be enough to remove the parasite behind the U.S. outbreak.

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

The way you prepare produce may make a difference in your risk for the "diarrhea parasite" that's going around.

New evidence suggests that a disease-causing tapeworm that has been spreading across the United States and Canada has arrived in the Pacific Northwest. The tapeworm, called Echinococcus multilocularis ...