In parts of Africa, millions of women live with a parasite few in the Western world know about. It’s called Schistosoma ...

What to know about tapeworms, the parasites ... the eggs hatch and live in your intestines. The tapeworm’s head adheres to the intestine wall and the segments of the body, called proglottids ...

Once in the human body the worm larvae migrate to the kidney where they then grow into adult worms and can live for up to five ... kidney worm is rare with the parasite more commonly found in ...

A parasitic worm may raise the risk of cervical cancer through several mechanisms, scientists have found, although HPV ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that continues to pose a serious health threat in tropical and subtropical regions, ...

Salmon is one of the most popular fish worldwide – but it naturally contains more than 70 parasites ... ultimately, in the human body. Workers at these facilities often wear protective suits ...

CQ clears out resistant parasites less efficiently from the human body than sensitive (non-resistant ... resistant parasites survive in a host with intermediate drug concentration, and will ...

OSAKA--The parasite ... the body's self-defense system, humans can become infected repeatedly. Three years ago, the researchers realized that when plasmodium infects human red blood cells, it ...