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

A WOMAN almost died after eating seafood contaminated with worms that burrowed in her brain. The 60-year-old turned up to ...

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 ...

In most cases, the rash from a wandering worm is in a foot, ankle, thigh, or rear—basically from a person walking or sitting in fecal-contaminated soil with exposed skin. But, in the New England ...

These worms are experts in regeneration – they ... multiple populations of other cells are recruited to swiftly restore the missing body section. It's a process called dedifferentiation, and ...

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.

“You can anesthetize the worm, watch through a microscope ... you would expect scientists to look for insights into human biology. Its body consists of just 959 cells. It has no lungs, liver ...

Narrator: For some bug babies, your body is home sweet home. Human botfly larvae, for example, burrow under your skin, forming a pus-filled pimple. Meanwhile, thousands of young Loa loa worms can ...

The burning feeling urges those infected to dip their foot into a body of water ... guinea worm is poised to be the second eradicated disease in human history after smallpox.