A red, parasitic worm turned out to be behind the woman's wide array of symptoms. | Credit: Hossain, M., Kennedy, K. J., ...

You can take certain steps to lower your chances of becoming an unwitting host to one of these nasties. Practicing basic ...

Image caption: The parasitic flatworm Haplorchis pumilio produces non-reproductive soldiers (left) which have much larger mouths than their reproductively capable colony-mates (center). The soldiers ...

A worm-like parasite lived in a woman's eye for two years, and doctors believe it entered her body after she ate crocodile meat. The infected 28-year-old woman, from the town of Basankusu in the ...

Soil-transmitted helminth infections are caused by different species of parasitic worms, including whipworms, hookworms and roundworms. Worldwide, more than 1.5 billion people are infected with at ...

Here’s a comforting thought: you might not actually be alone in your own body right now. Parasites are far more common than most people realize, and they don’t care about your personal boundaries, ...

When most people think of worms, they imagine harmless garden creatures wriggling through soil. Yet, the world of worms is far more sinister. Some are terrifying predators, invasive parasites, or ...

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DNA has been known to jump from one species to another in a phenomenon called horizontal transfer. Sometimes, the DNA of parasites will jump into the genomes of their hosts, and evidence of this ...