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

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

Journal of Medical Case Reports A medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman’s stomach, shocking doctors who said she didn’t have the telltale gastrointestinal symptoms of the parasitic ...

During an endoscopy procedure, live hookworms were found inside her small intestine and eggs were later discovered in her stool. Getty Images photo The woman had first gone to the doctor after ...

However when the problems persisted doctors carried out an endoscopy—inserting a camera into the gut via the mouth—and found live hookworms crawling in her gut. Tests also showed that ...

I'm referring, of course, to hookworms, the blood-feeding parasites aptly named for the hook-like heads they use to latch onto their victims. In the US, they're most often found in international ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates hookworms - large parasites which invade our immune system. The worms have co-evolved with us to secrete chemicals which alter our immune system ...

Doctors discovered live hookworms in a woman's stomach.