Two men in Massachusetts and New York, who are 61 and 66 years old, have been left riddled with parasitic worms after ...

A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the ...

A second transplant patient also became infected, leading their doctors to surmise that their new kidneys were likely to ...

An international team led by EPFL has discovered a powerful anti-aging pathway in roundworms, revealing how boosting the cell ...

A 43-year-old man discovered a dragon worm parasite up to 70cm long in his leg after self-extracting it at home, prompting ...

Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good news when it comes to controlling schistosomiasis, a disease caused by ...

Parasites live in and feed on human blood, tissues, ... and parasites. Dermatologists treat skin diseases. ... No natural remedy has been scientifically proven to get rid of worms or other parasites.

But at that time, a pregnant female Guinea worm—which can measure up to three feet in length—begins to break through the human’s skin and emerge to expel her larvae into a body of water.

Parasites were visibly moving under the skin on his thighs, forearms, abdomen, and back. T.D.T. under medical observation. Photo: National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Doctors diagnosed him with ...

Roundworms harbor viruses, which could be responsible for these parasites' painful symptoms in humans, scientists theorize.

The parasite Eustrongylides excisus, commonly known as red-worm-of-trout, can eat through the walls of intestines in fish and anything that eats the fish including, in very rare cases, humans.

“I don’t think anyone is born a parasitologist. No one grows up wanting to study worms,” Wood said. “Somewhere along the way, I like to say, they got under my skin. I just fell in love ...