Doctors didn't know why the woman wasn't getting better after being given medication for anemia and a bacterial stomach ...

A 75-year-old woman, who has since recovered, didn’t have the gastrointestinal bleeding that usually accompanies the ...

I'm referring, of course, to hookworms, the blood-feeding parasites ... americanus in the stool of more than a third of people tested in an impoverished community in Lowndes County, Alabama.

MEDICS were shocked to learn a woman’s iron deficiency was caused by worms feeding off her body. The 75-year-old woman visited the doctor in China after experiencing weakness, poor appetite, ...

Researchers then examined her stool, which revealed the presence of hookworm eggs. Parasitic worms infect up to 480 million people globally, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explains.

Doctors discovered live hookworms in a woman's stomach.