It is contracted when people consume water from stagnant sources contaminated with Guinea worm larvae. Once a person is infected, during the year-long incubation period the worm grows and ...

Federica Bertocchini, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), removed a batch of wax worms, the larvae of the common ... (PET), a plastic used in water bottles. Polyethylene is one ...

Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing the world's poorest people. Rarely fatal but searingly painful and ...

New research suggests that an “often-overlooked” parasitic infection, already linked to bladder cancer, may also raise the risk of cervical cancer.

What Are Those Worms In My Strawberries ... Cornell recommends checking for larvae by creating a solution of enough water to cover your berries, adding 1 tablespoon of salt for each cup of ...

One particularly nasty strain, S. haematobium, infects over 110 million people around the world. One inside the body, the ...

Though once declared eliminated, the parasitic guinea worm has reappeared in Vietnam, linked to raw food habits and posing ...