In Shaw, Miss., officials have failed to prevent the sewer system from backing up after heavy rains, causing water ...

IN the fight against malaria, global health workers have long relied on bed nets treated with insecticide to ward off disease-transmitting mosquitos. But with insecticide resistance rising, a new ...

Researchers have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum enabled it to infect humans.

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

Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks. However, parasite cleanses ...

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

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

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

Humans crash this vile cycle by accidentally ... which doesn't always catch all the parasites. However, modern treatment has turned more toward using benzimidazole drugs that fight parasitic ...

Do worms go away on their own? Mild cases of threadworms may eventually clear up, but re-infection is common, so treatment is usually needed. Roundworms, tapeworms, and other parasites rarely go ...

To get rid of a tapeworm you will have to seek medical care and take anti-parasitic medications, however treatments will vary depending on the severity of your infection and if it has become invasive.