The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

Here are 10 parasites that can infect humans, and everything you ... Myiasis is very painful and can cause skin lesions, bleeding, feeling maggots under your skin, and a foul odor among other ...

When you hear the term "ringworm," do you imagine tiny worms crawling on your ... re much more likely to get it from skin-to-skin contact with an infected human or animal. You also might get ...

Human botfly larvae, for example, burrow under your skin, forming a pus-filled pimple. Meanwhile, thousands of young Loa loa worms can travel throughout your body —even across your eyeball!

which causes skin diseases and blindness. In both worms, the researchers saw viruses under a microscope — specifically, they saw a virus called BMRV1 in the former and OVRV1 in the latter.

Globally, over 600 million people are infected with the skin-penetrating threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions with poor sanitation infrastructure.

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have developed widespread drug resistance in both North America and Australia.

Another parasitic worm, Clavinema mariae, which doesn't cause illness in humans, increased its numbers eight times in local English sole since the 1930s. Wood says that normal public-health ...