You may have heard an influencer say you’re infected with worms or parasites and then been promised a “cleanse cure.” Our ...

I don’t know what the heck is going to come out,” the German supermodel, 52, confessed about her worm and parasite cleanse.

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There are parasites all over the world that can infect humans. Some of them are easy to avoid, but others are more common than you might think.

Human body hair might seem to be useless on today's modern man, but it could help us detect parasites, researchers suggest, adding there's a chance our female ancestors preferred a bug-free mate ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea.

Accumulating evidence suggests that a common single-celled parasite called Toxoplasma gondii may also be a contributor: An April 2025 study showed for the first time that "human sperm lose their ...

Lice commonly dwell on people’s heads, clamping onto hair shafts, piercing scalps and drinking blood. Unable to survive away from human bodies, the parasites jump from one person to the next.