A peculiar case of a woman who took tapeworm egg pills as a quick-fix solution to lose weight has come to light. Doctors said ...

People often contract schistosomiasis through water contaminated with infected snails and feces.

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Tapeworms are parasites which enter the human gut primarily through people unwittingly eating its eggs in undercooked meat. There they can trigger weightloss by taking some of the food eaten by ...

"She would have periods in time where she’d suddenly wake up in the middle of the day and she couldn’t remember anything from the last few hours." ...

Toxoplasma seemed to already possess most of the qualities needed for brain-targeting therapeutics: It could evade the host ...

A collaborative study led by De’Broski R. Herbert of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and ...

Transposons, specifically LINE-1 elements, previously regarded as genomic parasites, play a pivotal role in early human ...

Naima Troutt, known online as Hair.Soup, is a political content creator known best for her viral Jubilee debates with ...

Polar bears have been exposed to more viruses, bacteria and parasites in recent decades, a new study shows, possibly acquiring the germs in their diet.

As the Arctic warms, polar bears now face a greater risk of contracting several pathogens than bears three decades ago. Karyn ...

Polar bears are at greater risk from disease due to global warming, warns new research. The threatened species are being ...