X-ray images reveal the disturbing result of a culinary blunder that led to a man becoming infested with tapeworm eggs. Sam ...

In the decades since Frankenstein, generations of artists and storytellers have speculated how technology and discovery can sometimes lead us down a dark and destructive path. Here are 32 of the ...

This is the disgusting and shocking scene which awaited medics giving an X-ray to a man whose body was filled with parasitic ...

A parasitic worm infection, also known as a helminth infection, occurs when parasitic worms, or helminths, infect the body.

Tritrichomonas foetus (Tritric) is a microscopic menace that can turn a household into a battleground of chronic illness.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two in five American adults have obesity, a common and ...

The human immune system is like an army of specialized soldiers (immune cells) each with a unique role to play in fighting ...

People are to be sent from Oxford to the Netherlands to be deliberately infected with a form of malaria so scientists can study its effects. Plasmodium vivax is a type of malaria that can remain ...

Every year, over 100,000 illnesses are reported in Germany that may have been caused by microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses or parasites in food. The number of unreported cases is even higher. In ...

In the United States, the most well-known skin-penetrating parasitic worm, called a nematode, is the hookworm. But globally, ...

Scientists have predicted that the rate of foodborne trematode infections will remain stable up to 2030. Foodborne ...