Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have ...

Parasitic infections or worms can affect anyone, regardless of age or location. While often associated with unsanitary ...

The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...

Jimmy Carter's legacy includes a major medical contribution: the eradication of guinea worm disease. Learn about this ancient ...

Parasites do not have to bite your dog for the treatment to work because the medicine ... to thousands of adverse incidents in pets and humans. To date, 2,500 pet deaths have been allegedly ...

Former President Carter's state funeral is Thursday. A Sun-Times reporter interviewed Carter in Nepal in 2008, and writes about his work to eradicate the eye disease trachoma and other neglected ...

This year may prove to be the first in which human guinea worm cases drop to the single digits ... There was also a lot of excitement around a new antiretroviral treatment, lenacapavir, which was ...

Pinworms are small, thin, pin-shaped worms that sometimes live in the human colon and rectum ... Don't bathe with anyone or share towels during treatment and for two weeks after the final treatment.

Only 14 human cases were reported across four African nations ... diseasesThere's no vaccine that prevents Guinea worm infections or medicine that gets rid of the parasites. Treatment has changed ...

Researchers are now looking for a treatment for infected dogs ... Smallpox, Farmer said, is “the only human disease (that’s) ever been eradicated. And if … Guinea worm is right behind, that’s going to ...