Football-shaped whipworm eggs pictured in the top row, circular tapeworm eggs with a dark outer shell pictured in the bottom row. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--Denizens of the Asuka Period (592-710) feasted on pork and may have done so routinely, archaeologists deduced from parasite eggs excavated from a toilet structure found ...

If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...

Some people experience no symptoms at all. Checking your stool (poop) for worms or eggs is one way to confirm their presence, but other tests may be needed. Serious complications can arise with ...

It’s possible to spot threadworms in the stool after a bowel ... to prevent the eggs from getting caught under them. Threadworms aren’t the only worms (helminths) that invade humans.

However, eggs are difficult to spot and you'll likely need to bring the stool to your vet for identification. In fact, "most intestinal parasites are actually identified in a fecal sample by ...

Infection develops after ingesting whipworm eggs from the contaminated soil. The discovery, published in Science Advances, could pave the way for more effective drug treatments for such worms, which ...

Even if a tapeworm is not yet visible, a doctor can check stool samples for parts of larvae or eggs. From there, medication will clear up the parasite. “Sometimes the tapeworm will exit your ...