A 75-year-old woman, who has since recovered, didn’t have the gastrointestinal bleeding that usually accompanies the ...

In extreme cases, the swelling can be profound, resulting in a condition known as elephantiasis. This is because the worm ...

A teenager from California visited a dermatology clinic complaining of an unsightly rash, which was later found to be parasitic worms. The 19-year-old boy worked as a beach lifeguard in southern ...

And have you ever heard of hookworm, a parasite you can pick up through the soles of your feet? Google it and be haunted. All that means that going open-toed in the subways is a risk. And yet ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates hookworms - large parasites which invade our immune system. The worms have co-evolved with us to secrete chemicals which alter our immune system ...

Over the past 15 years our researchers have led the development of new vaccines to combat NTDs. Through their activities a human hookworm vaccine is in phase 1 clinical trials as is a schistosomiasis ...

Researchers then examined her stool, which revealed the presence of hookworm eggs. Parasitic worms infect up to 480 million people globally, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explains.