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

Human botfly larvae, for example, burrow under your skin, forming a pus-filled pimple. Meanwhile, thousands of young Loa loa worms can travel throughout your body —even across your eyeball!

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

Here are 10 parasites that can infect humans, and everything you ... Myiasis is very painful and can cause skin lesions, bleeding, feeling maggots under your skin, and a foul odor among other ...

Former president Jimmy Carter’s charity has helped transform Guinea worm from a disease that used to infect millions to one ...

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