The roundworm infection occurs when larvae, which get on the hands from touching contaminated soil or unwashed vegetables, are ingested. Once ingested, roundworms become parasites in their host ...

Park entrances have the highest concentration of Toxocara parasite eggs, followed by playgrounds, posing a health risk to ...

Beyond human perceptions of parasites, there are a range of social ... why should the extinction of a wildlife parasite such as the panda roundworm be any different in terms of good and bad?

An alarming report has highlighted the risk posed by a vision-robbing parasite that could be lurking in your local park.

Ian Oliphant, a Vancouver Island University biology student, conducted the first survey in B.C. on the population of helminth ...

Scientists have isolated the DNA of the roundworm Toxascaris leonina from puma feces dating back 16,570 to 17,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, in a study published in Parasitology on ...

Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

Campbell and Japanese scientist Satoshi Omura were jointly awarded half the prize for their discovery of a therapy to treat infections caused by roundworm parasites. Chinese scientist Youyou Tu ...

The study found most of the eggs were from Toxocara Canis - a roundworm species commonly found in dogs - and were potentially infective to both dogs and humans. Although human infection by this ...

Roundworm infection is relatively common in dogs and often they carry it without symptoms - but in humans it can cause blindessCredit: Getty Roundworms are parasites found in cats, dogs ...