The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

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

They're ever-present, especially when it comes to skin infections ... They shed light on how a parasitic worm, Schistosoma mansoni, can sneak into the human body by evading this very defense ...

Roundworms, also known as nematodes, are a leading cause of parasitic infection worldwide, causing painful swelling, severe abdominal pain and even blindness. Now, scientists say that viruses ...

Guinea worms are thin, thread-like parasites that can grow up to three feet long within the human body, before emerging through the skin. The Carter Center Humans cannot develop resistance to the ...

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

Horsehair worms, belonging to the phylum Nematomorpha, are fascinating parasites known for their ... and have systems in place to gain human feedback on the overall quality of the process.

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

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.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two in five American adults have obesity, a common and ...