The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department ...

Coughing: Not all dogs will develop this symptom, but when the worms migrate through the body, they can damage the lungs and ...

Intestinal worms are organisms that feed off the human body. Tapeworm, hookworm, pinworm, and other types of worms affect the body in different ways. A person may notice worms in stool. Types of ...

Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped containment ...

A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the ...

Intestinal worms are organisms that feed off the human body. Tapeworm, hookworm, pinworm, and other types of worms enter the body and affect it in different ways. A person may notice worms in ...

A shocking new study shows that 90% of freshwater fish in Southern California may be carrying parasites that can infect ...

There are parasites all over the world that can infect humans. Some of them are easy to avoid, but others are more common ...

Unfortunately for us, our external irritants are not the only parasites that have accompanied humans over time. Endoparasties, those that survive and reproduce inside of humans and animals, can also ...

Intestinal worms may clear up on their own, ... Intestinal worms common in humans are flatworms and roundworms. Common flatworm infections are: tapeworms (taeniasis) flukes; ...

Parasites are organisms that live in and feed off a living host. There are a variety of parasitic worms that can take up residence in humans. Among them are flatworms, roundworms, and thorny ...

“The eggs of most intestinal worms are pretty tough, otherwise you’d digest them and they’d never get to reproduce and infect other people,” says Mitchell, who was part of another team ...