Better well done than wormy! A stomach-turning image of a parasite infection embedded in the muscle of a human body shows the dangers a person can face if they consume undercooked pork. Emergency room ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - The Center of Disease Control reported that 10 people developed symptoms of a worm infection after eating rare bear meat. According to a press release from the CDC, black bears are ...

AMES, Iowa – The worms can live inside your body for years, decades even. And it’s not the worms themselves that will eventually make you sick. Rather, it’s the thousands of eggs they lay.

An emergency room physician shared the CT scan of a patient diagnosed with the parasitic infection called cysticercosis Getty, Sam Ghali, M.D./X An emergency room doctor is sharing the alarming scans ...

A family meal of grilled bear meat went very wrong after six people were diagnosed with a rare parasitic disease. The infected individuals had attended a South Dakota family reunion in July 2022 where ...

New research has revealed that Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium), a parasitic infection affecting millions globally, can trigger cancer-related gene activity in the cervical lining, with ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...

A parasite cleanse is a diet, herbal supplement, or other product that claims to get rid of parasites in your body. People who promote these cleanses claim that parasites are the cause of digestive ...

A little-known parasitic infection in the brain has come into the spotlight following presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.’s admission that he once suffered from it, NBC News reported May 8.

A human case of the flesh-eating New World Screwworm has been found in the United States in a person who traveled to El Salvador. The parasitic insect is actually a fly that looks similar to a ...

Trypanosoma brucei infection induces fat breakdown, but this strategy benefits the host. To uncover how the parasite induces fat loss, the researchers used wildtype and knockout mice that lacked ...