A group of researchers has developed a new formulation for the only drug available on the market to treat helminths, as worms ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the ...

Malaria continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, with over 200 million cases and approximately ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm ...

For parasitologists, the answer is simple. Neatly housed in each of the myriad segments of a giant T. solium tapeworm are ...

A POTENTIALLY deadly parasite carried by snails is creeping into popular European holiday spots, experts have warned. The bug ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...

TVA also advises those dealing with the worms not to touch them with their bare hands, as they secrete toxic slime that can ...

They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...