The comedian Shappi Khorsandi once commented that she used the mythical concept of 'sugar worms' to get her children to brush ...

In extreme cases, the swelling can be profound, resulting in a condition known as elephantiasis. This is because the worm ...

MEDICS were shocked to learn a woman’s iron deficiency was caused by worms feeding off her body. The 75-year-old woman ...

Yet, worms don’t just invade the gut or lungs — some can work their way into other regions of the body. Dr Baumgardt said: 'Take lymphatic filariasis, a condition that arises when certain ...

Worms don't just invade the gut or lungs. Some of them work their way into other regions of the body. Take lymphatic filariasis, a condition that arises when certain worms of the Filariidae order ...

In most cases, the rash from a wandering worm is in a foot, ankle, thigh, or rear—basically from a person walking or sitting ...

Depending on the degree of the effects of the worms, animals fail to thrive, some become infertile and others will even abort ...

In January, a disturbing X-ray of a human body riddled with worms went viral after the patient contracted cysticercosis — which begins with eating undercooked pig but is passed through fecal matter.

In a study published in 2023, young and old Caenorhabditis elegans worms treated with the drug – which is normally used to ...

That’s when they realized she might have brain worms. A woman from coastal New England ... hospital — when the burning spread to her body and arm and she developed a painful headache that ...