The comedian Shappi Khorsandi once commented that she used the mythical concept of 'sugar worms' to get her children to brush ...

Here are 10 parasites that can infect humans, and everything you need to ... You may have no symptoms at all, or you may notice a localized rash where the worms entered the skin.

Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

Holidaymakers were today warned about the dangers of parasites after a teenager's 'rash' was discovered to ... their feces contains hookworm eggs. When a human steps on, sits on or touches that ...

A WOMAN almost died after eating seafood contaminated with worms that burrowed in her brain. The 60-year-old turned up to ...

After completing a two-day course of ivermectin, a parasitic roundworm treatment, the rash cleared up quickly. The weirdest things found inside the human body – from a fly buzzing around a man ...

In most cases, the rash from a wandering worm is in a foot, ankle, thigh, or rear—basically from a person walking or sitting in fecal-contaminated soil with exposed skin. But, in the New England ...

The parasite larvae then matures inside the gastropods, allowing the cycle to repeat. But sometimes other animals—and even plants—can get involved, laying the groundwork for human transmission.

People are coming together to rally behind the family of a Pryor boy with a rare infection caused by a parasite called ...