Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good ...

Although far from benign — these intestinal parasites infect more than a billion humans worldwide ... host's body when skin, often on the feet, comes in contact with worm larvae in feces ...

BOSTON – A parasitic worm could help skin wounds heal faster and better ... They now plan to test this protein on human wounds.

Fortunately, you can’t get it from drinking the water or from skin ... But the parasite can occasionally infect humans, earning it a spot on this list. Heartworms are filarial worms, related ...

The worms used in helminth therapy are parasites ... the treatment. Human hookworms, or necator americanus, pictured left, are sold as larvae which are applied to the skin in a bandage.

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

Itch, he explains, is the body's way of detecting threats such as skin infections before they can take hold. These blood flukes, which are among the most prevalent parasites in humans, infecting ...

Scientists found that a protein derived from a species of intestinal parasitic ... worms naturally infest the guts of rodents, which has already made them useful to study as a model for human ...

Just as the worm emerges, it burns and stings the skin, often encouraging the ... to be eradicated by humans, the only ...

also shows the number of British travellers who have brought the parasite home with them has reached a record high. The worm, a type of blood fluke, burrows through human skin where it then ...