A sneaky worm avoids detection by silencing nerves that would normally trigger pain or itching. The finding could inspire new painkillers and tools to protect against infection.

Scientists have discovered a parasite that can sneak into your skin without you feeling a thing. The worm, Schistosoma ...

The larvae, which infests bodies freshwater bodies of water like lakes, rivers and ponds has a trick for burrowing into the skin unnoticed.

Helminths are most common in areas that have moist, warm climates and poor sanitation. When worms are in someone's intestines, that person passes eggs through their stool. As the feces come into ...

New research, published in The Journal of Immunology, discovered that a parasitic worm suppresses neurons in the skin to ...

In a recent interview, the "Project Runway" star said she's starting a parasite cleanse, and recommended that everyone should ...

Helminths are parasitic worms that cause a wide variety of infectious diseases, some of which involve the musculoskeletal system. Helminths may be classified into nematodes or roundworms ...

Soil-transmitted helminths are a group of parasitic intestinal worms that infect roughly 1·5 billion people globally. The most prevalent species are Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and ...

Indeed, many helminths, including the porcine tapeworm and the human hookworm, are known to cause disease and even death in the human population. Parasitic worms are still a big problem in some ...

Helminths calm the immune system, then, but not only those mechanisms used by the immune system in allergic responses. They calm entirely different mechanisms involved in the other chronic ...