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

An ER doctor explained how a patient suffered a tapeworm infection, with an X-ray showing the larvae all over his pelvis and legs.

Here are 10 parasites that can infect humans, and everything you need to know about them so you can avoid contracting one. Parasites are any organism that lives on or inside, or feeds on ...

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...

That means you might be able to see worms or pieces of worms in human poop. There are many types of worms that might be in ...

A recent X-ray scan showcasing calcified parasites embedded throughout a patient's body has gone viral, highlighting the ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have developed widespread drug resistance in both North America and Australia.

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

A new study from a postbaccalaureate researcher in Mark Roth’s lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Cameron Suraci, shows that ...

Another parasitic worm, Clavinema mariae, which doesn't cause illness in humans, increased its numbers eight times in local English sole since the 1930s. Wood says that normal public-health ...

Never mind allergies, scientists are investigating the more dramatic theory that parasitic worms could improve the symptoms of or even cure debilitating diseases in humans. Some researchers think that ...