Often, people will have no symptoms of an intestinal worm infection. Several types of intestinal worms can infect humans. The general term for these animals is helminths. Several helminths, such as ...

A four year-long research study has found that particles secreted by an intestinal worm may assist in treating inflammatory ...

Researchers at the (Belgium) have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that regulates the immune response against parasites.

Parasitic worms are difficult to kill with current therapies, but their commensal bacteria might be their Achilles’ heel.

"What we have is just a ball of worms," Mr Musk said, when describing the agency. "You've got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair. We're shutting it down." USAID workers ...

A pair of ancient nematodes or microscopic roundworms that lived in the Pleistocene era, when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth, have been revived by scientists. The surprising discovery ...

UC San Francisco's Rais Vohra, MD, explains recent increase in reported virus infections and the risks of consuming raw cow’s ...

Symptoms seen in humans infected by D1.1 have been more severe than the previous bird flu strain that has been spreading in cows. That strain, called B3.13, has led to only mild symptoms ...

For humans, bird flu symptoms have been generally mild, including fever, sore throat, cough, runny nose, eye discomfort, muscle aches and fatigue. Rarely, more severe symptoms can occur which ...

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