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 stool.

You may have heard an influencer say you’re infected with worms or parasites and then been promised a “cleanse cure.” Our ...

Humans become infected with this roundworm parasite by ingesting worm eggs that are attached to the soil, vegetables, or food ...

Intestinal worms are properly called “helminths,” which most dictionaries will tell you are parasites. Exploiting their hosts, draining resources, sucking the life out of the body – that’s ...

Parasites cause a wide variety of conditions in humans, bloating and daily burping often being the first symptom of a parasite infestation. Other symptoms include skin issues, gluten and lactose ...

Many intestinal worms take a detour through the lungs en route to the gut. One such worm is Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, the equivalent in rodents to human hookworm, which currently infects over ...

The majority of intestinal parasites that have historically infected humans have been declining in prevalence and are currently rare in the United States, according to a 2023 review in Modern ...

In the 1990s, Dr. Joel Weinstock, then at the University of Iowa and now at Tufts University, observed that the eradication of intestinal worms in the developed world was followed soon after by a ...

The first human trials using pig whipworm took place in 2005. and this worm is being developed as a possible colitis vaccine, said Dr. Joel Weinstock, who pioneered this research while at the ...

Photo: Yoli Schwartz, The Israel Antiquities Authority A team of researchers found 2,700-year-old eggs of parasitic intestinal worms under a stone toilet in what is now Israel.