James Cook University scientists have found stonefish toxins could be used to fight parasitic worm infections suffered by ...

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Scientists this week published information on an unprecedented case in Australia, where they found and extracted a live parasitic worm from the brain of a woman in Canberra. The worm was some 8 ...

Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading a woman's brain and causing rare and rapidly progressing lesions. The previously healthy 60-year-old ...

Further tests confirmed that the woman was infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a parasitic worm often contracted from eating undercooked seafood. The worms caused eosinophilic meningitis ...

Instead of targeting the parasitic worms themselves, Palencia turned his attention to the worm microbiome. “There is a lot of research going on in human microbiota,” said Palencia. “But the microbiota ...

Heartworm disease is a serious and potentially fatal condition that affects not only dogs, but also cats and ferrets, in the ...

In the case of the rattail, the parasites had apparently not crippled the fish, which quickly swam away while being studied, researchers noted. This octopus seen at 885-feet was covered in worm ...