Three types of parasites can cause disease in humans. They are protozoa, carried by mosquitos, helminths, such as roundworm, and ectoparasites, for instance lice and bed bugs. Parasites are organisms ...

There were only 10 reported cases of Guinea worm infections confined to three countries in 2025, a historic low announced ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. There are more parasites than any other organism on Earth—which is one of the reasons Emmitt Jolly finds ...

A debilitating infection from the parasitic Guinea worm is inching closer to global eradication, with an all-time low of only 10 human cases reported worldwide in 2025, the Carter Center announced. If ...

Usually what Beth Mole writes is very clear. But this time I could not tell whether the whole human-eye part of the worm life cycle occurs between the lid and the eyeball, or whether the parasite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In tablet form, ivermectin is used to treat some parasitic worms in humans. It can also be used as a cream to treat parasites such ...

A parasite cleanse is a diet, herbal supplement, or other product that claims to get rid of parasites in your body. People who promote these cleanses claim that parasites are the cause of digestive ...

Most people who try to hitch a free flight hiding in a jet’s wheel-well die in the attempt, like the person whose body was discovered on Christmas Eve after a flight from Chicago landed on Maui. But ...