Threadworms, which are a type of parasitic nematode, spend a lot of time crawling around on human skin, poking and prodding ...

“This is the first human case of travel-associated New World screwworm myiasis (parasitic infestation of fly larvae) from an ...

The larvae, which infests bodies freshwater bodies of water like lakes, rivers and ponds has a trick for burrowing into the ...

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

Hordes of writhing flesh-eating worms have erupted from the ground in Texas , terrifying local residents. The worms can irritate the skin of humans and also tend to prey on earthworms.

The doctors removed the worm via a pars plana vitrectomy, a procedure in which the eye’s internal jelly-like vitreous humor ...

In a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors report that they first noted that the eye was bloodshot and ...

It is scary enough when parasitic diseases such as malaria and amoebic dysentery get into the body, but molecular biologist Antonio Teixeira of the University of Brasilia has found something even more ...