Nutrition and lifestyle consultant Madeleine Helm hosts Zoom sessions on health and recently discussed parasite types, their health effects and ways to reduce infection risks.

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The European Medicines Agency’s positive opinion for ivermectin-albendazole for treating soil-transmitted helminth infections ...

When your furry friends contract a parasitic infection like hookworm or roundworm, the consequences can be severe for both them and your family ...

Lotilaner, moxidectin, praziquantel, and pyrantel chewable tablets offer protection against 6 types of parasites ...

In early 2021, a 64-year-old woman from south-eastern New South Wales began dealing with stomach aches and diarrhoea, which ...

Roundworms and hookworms cause vomiting and diarrhea in cats. In humans who inadvertently ingest the microscopic eggs, these parasites cause blindness, seizures and organ damage. The third ...

Jan. 21, 2025 — Trypanosomes are parasites that cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and various animal diseases. Diagnosis and treatment remain complex and no effective vaccine has been ...

Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain, are potentially the most damaging and the most ...

It's all connected: coronaviruses and other emerging infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, and destruction of the environment by humans. Around the world, pathogens and parasites are ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...

Orangutans live only in the jungles of Indonesia. But humans live pretty much everywhere. Our species has spread across frozen tundras, settled on mountaintops and called other extreme ...