A detection of the New World Screwworm closer to the United States will keep the ports closed to livestock from Mexico.

The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying that a flesh-eating parasite has moved further ...

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

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

Ten weeks after a New England man received a kidney transplant, he went into respiratory failure and shock — thanks to an extensive parasitic worm infection, according to his medical team.

How Worm-Inspired Treatments Are Inching Their Way Toward the Clinic Infection by certain wrigglers may reduce inflammation and fight obesity and diabetes. Scientists are working to turn the ...

A rat infestation has shut down a popular horse racetrack and training centre in Surrey. Horse owners have filed a lawsuit in hopes of keeping the facility open while the pests are exterminated ...

Threadworms, roundworms and tapeworms are all leading causes of parasitic infection worldwide – but do you know the signs they could be squirming around inside you? From easy to dismiss sympt… ...

A woman from Doncaster and a man from Darlington have both been banned from keeping equines for a decade after severely neglecting nine horses.

Since the respiratory tract and gut are the favourite places for these worms to bunk down, the symptoms of a hookworm infection tend to be associated with them – such as coughing and wheezing.

There are mainly stomach worms, intestinal worms and lungworms. There are also roundworms that infest the eyes of animals. Some worms like the screwworm may be found in the animal’s skin.

Threadworm Threadworm infestation is a common minor ailment, particularly in kids. The worm species that causes it – Enterobius vermicularis – goes by many other names, including pinworm.