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

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

New research reveals that canine hookworms in Australia are developing growing resistance to drugs. New research indicates ...

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

If someone with Guinea worm has contact with water the worm may release tens of thousands of baby worms, contaminating the whole body of water.

Parasites do not have to bite your dog for the treatment to work because the medicine ... get rid of them because flea eggs can be in your home but not on your dog. Frontline Plus is easy to ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm ... human disease for only the second time in history. "It'd ...

Pinworms are small, thin, pin-shaped worms that sometimes live in the ... at the same time. A few home remedies have been promoted for treating pinworms, including garlic, Karlovy Vary healing ...

“Don’t wait for the signs of intestinal worm infection to present themselves. According to the World Health Organization, ...

In all of human history, we have eradicated two diseases—smallpox, in 1980, and rinderpest, in 2011. We are now on the cusp of eradicating a third: guinea worm. Guinea worm is ... around a new ...