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

The worms then burrow out of people’s bodies, blistering the skin as they exit in an agonizingly painful ... Unlike smallpox, ...

Pinworms are small, thin, pin-shaped worms that sometimes live in the human ... your anus and deposit their eggs on the surrounding skin. Pinworm infections are very common in elementary school ...

Treatment has changed little since ancient Greece. Emerging worms are gently wound around a stick as they're slowly pulled through the skin. Removing an entire worm without breaking it can take weeks.

In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program ...

A new tablet combining albendazole and ivermectin is safe and more effective than albendazole alone in treating Trichuris ...

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have ...

Treatment has changed little since ancient Greece. Emerging worms are gently wound around a stick as they’re slowly pulled through the skin. Removing an entire worm without breaking it can take ...

If you already have HIV, you may have a weakened immune system, which makes you and your skin more vulnerable to infections from bacteria, viruses, and parasites, which can cause an HIV rash.

For instance, some cats with sensitive skin can't tolerate a spot-on ... talk to your veterinarian before beginning any treatment. Number of parasites treated: Flea preventives that treat ...

Carter made eradicating Guinea worm a top mission of The Carter Center, the nonprofit he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, ...