A doctor was forced to pluck three wriggling parasitic worms from a dog owner’s eye - after the pooch unwittingly affected him. The man from East China's Zhejiang Province - known only as Mr Yan, 54, ...

He now spends his days digging worms out of haunches and treating wounds with powder. “This plague is back and it’s stronger than ever,” he says. Central America is suffering its worst ...

When video of a dog at the top of an Egyptian pyramid in Giza went viral last week, tens of millions of social media users were simultaneously delighted and baffled. How did the dog get up there ...

While accepting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year, molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun spent a few minutes lauding his experimental subject: a tiny worm named Caenorhabditis elegans.

Video of a dog venturing to the top of one of Egypt's Great Pyramids has gone mega-viral. The dog ventured up to the 448-foot tall Pyramid of Khafre is one of the three Ancient Egyptian Pyramids ...

The parasite that causes schistosomiasis completes its life cycle in two hosts – first in snails and then in mammals such as people, dogs and mice. Freshwater worm eggs enter human hosts through ...

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We must change how we worm our horses before it is too late, say experts Eleanor Jones 20 October, 2024 21:30 Repeated blanket treatments for drug-resistant worms must be avoided.

They’re most likely to infect rodents and other wild animals, outdoor dogs, and people who are in contact with them or who spend time working in the soil. Victims might also get the eggs or larvae ...

But the landmarks don’t usually have dogs hanging out on top of them. While flying over Egypt’s famous Great Pyramids at sunrise earlier this week, US paraglider Marshall Mosher and fellow ...