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

It literally made his skin crawl. A sewer worker in Spain had the internet gagging after he showed up at the hospital with worms squirming about under his skin, as detailed in the New England ...

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.

New World screwworm was largely eradicated from the U.S. and Central America in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively. But the ...

Intestinal worms are organisms that feed off the human body. Tapeworm, hookworm, pinworm, and other types of worms enter the body and affect it in different ways. A person may notice worms in stool.

It can be transmitted to humans through the bite of some sand flies after the flies themselves have been infected by animals—usually rodents in the United States—whose blood the insects feed on.

The researchers determined that TGM works by binding to a signaling protein, called the TGF-b receptor, that is found on the surface of many cell types in mice and humans, including immune cells.