Parasitic infections or worms can affect anyone, regardless of age or location. While often associated with unsanitary conditions, these infections occur through various routes that many people ...

Hoards of flesh-eating worms have erupted from the ground in Texas, terrifying local residents. The invasive hammerhead worms — which can grow up to a foot long — came to the surface in the ...

BOSTON – A parasitic worm could help skin wounds heal faster and better. Skin wounds must close quickly to avoid infection but this rapid closure promotes the formation of scar tissue rather than ...

New research, published in The Journal of Immunology, discovered that a parasitic worm suppresses neurons in the skin to evade detection. The researchers suggest that the worm likely evolved this ...

Former president Jimmy Carter was touring villages in Ghana during the late 1980s when he first encountered people with Guinea worm disease. This tropical disease involves an infection with parasitic ...

Editor's note: This post originally published on May 9 and has been updated. "A worm ... got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died." These are words nobody wants to say. They were spoken ...