The worm was successfully removed last year. The woman, whom Senanayake praised as being “very courageous and patient,” returned to normal life after the operation to remove the parasite ...

Mexico made a first shipment of sterile parasitic flies to Uruguay to help combat the cattle “screw worm” or Cochliomyia hominivorax, an insect whose larvae or maggots eat living tissue ...

We now show that once established the worms alter the microflora of the host to make subsequent egg hatching less effective. This prevents the build-up of parasite numbers, which we know can lead to ...

In a rare medical case, parasitic worms grew underneath a woman's upper eyelid.

Sanjaya Senanayake 5:12 Yeah, well look to, I guess answer the second question soon after the worm was removed from the brain, we started her on anti parasitic treatment, and she very quickly ...