The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...

Trichuris incognita is a newfound intestinal roundworm closely related to the whipworm parasite. However, it is significantly ...

Human botfly larvae, for example, burrow under your skin, forming a pus-filled pimple. Meanwhile, thousands of young Loa loa worms can travel ... Another tropical parasite: Tunga penetrans.

Parasitic infections or worms can affect anyone, regardless of age or location. While often associated with unsanitary ...

Then, four white worms were found on either side ... Thelazia are a group of nematodes and veterinary parasites that can occasionally infect humans, called a zoonotic infection, according to ...

The parasite that causes schistosomiasis ... dogs and mice. Freshwater worm eggs enter human hosts through the skin and ...

Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing the world’s poorest people.