A 75-year-old woman, who has since recovered, didn’t have the gastrointestinal bleeding that usually accompanies the ...

When those animals go to their bathroom, sometimes, their faeces contains hookworm eggs. When a human steps on, sits on or touches that soil, the larva can burrow into the skin or can absorb them.

In extreme cases, the swelling can be profound, resulting in a condition known as elephantiasis. This is because the worm ...

Tests also showed that hookworm eggs in her stools were necator americanus, a species known to cause severe anaemia. Such parasites feed on blood in the intestines, which can lead to severe iron ...

The comedian Shappi Khorsandi once commented that she used the mythical concept of 'sugar worms' to get her children to brush ...

In most cases, the rash from a wandering worm is in a foot, ankle, thigh, or rear—basically from a person walking or sitting in fecal-contaminated soil with exposed skin. But, in the New England ...