Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...

The European Medicines Agency’s positive opinion for ivermectin-albendazole for treating soil-transmitted helminth infections ...

When your furry friends contract a parasitic infection like hookworm or roundworm, the consequences can be severe for both them and your family ...

The parasite’s larvae are transmitted to humans by the bite ... it was relief at last – her symptoms have gone, and it has been weeks since she has watched as a worm crawled across her eyeball.

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis ...

An NUS-based study says 11 species that have bitten humans here can carry 1 or more harmful microbes. Read more at ...

Symptoms include fever ... with protozoan parasites belonging to the genus Trypanosoma. These parasites are passed to humans through the bite of infected tsetse flies, which acquire the infection ...

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 ...