It was a literal tape worm. A UK mom was relieved — albeit embarrassed — after discovering that her son’s “brain-eating worm” was actually a harmless piece of tape. The ordeal occurred in November ...

Three types of parasites can cause disease in humans. They are protozoa, carried by mosquitos, helminths, such as roundworm, and ectoparasites, for instance lice and bed bugs. Parasites are organisms ...

To remember is to conjure the ghosts of places and people that no longer exist. Diving to touch the tiled bottom of the pool as a child and feeling the pressure in your ears. Walking through an ...

In August 2016, CDC investigators identified the first human case of an infection involving eye worms in a 26-year-old woman, according to a case study published Monday in the American Journal of ...

Scientists have found over a dozen parasitic worms in the eyes of a black bear, renewing fears that humans could face an emerging danger from the tiny worms that can cause blindness. The black bear ...

When most people think about human evolution, they look to our closest cousins the apes. But dial the evolutionary clock back just a bit more (by perhaps a few hundreds of thousands of years) and ...