Q: My new kitten Nala has ear mites, for which my veterinarian prescribed treatment. I know from reading your column that some animal parasites also infect people. Can Nala's ear mites jump to me?

I've read that if a pet has ear mites, these mites can travel to bedding and furniture and potentially attach themselves to a human host. I also understand that you don't need your own pet to be at ...

A man whose ear had itched for two months turned out to have mites crawling in his ear canal, a new case report says. The 70-year-old man in Taiwan also reported feeling a sense of fullness in the ...

The New England Journal of Medicine recently posted this creepy video of ear mites crawling around in some poor 70-year-old man’s ear. The Taiwanese resident complained of “a sense of fullness in the ...

A man whose ear had itched for two months turned out to have mites crawling in his ear canal, a new case report says. The 70-year-old man in Taiwan also reported feeling a sense of fullness in the ...

Q: "My cat's date of birth was 7/1/23. Somehow, I ended up purchasing a very ill kitten from a private owner. I called him Pumpkin, and when I picked him up, it was at night in the pouring rain, so I ...