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Last week, a Tennessee teenager made headlines after he became infected with hookworms after being buried in the sand by friends while visiting a Florida beach. After the outing, Michael Dumas, a ...

For many, the idea of having a few dozen hookworms set up shop in your gut sounds more like a Survivor challenge than a beneficial health therapy, but scientists see a bright future in this human worm ...

A 75-year-old woman, who has since recovered, didn’t have the gastrointestinal bleeding that usually accompanies the infection Journal of Medical Case Reports A medical scan showed live hookworms in a ...

Hookworms are a nasty intestinal parasite that can affect humans and animals alike. Hookworm larvae typically reach their host through infected soil. The parasite, which the Center for Disease Control ...

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A 17-year-old Memphis teen is still suffering from painful side effects more than a month after he contracted a parasitic worm infection while on a mission trip in Florida. Michael Dumas, who was ...

Is there anything better than digging your toes into the warm sand on some beautiful, exotic beach? Well there is if that beach is riddled with hookworms that hope to burrow into your feet and make ...

A Canadian couple's beach vacation to the Dominican Republic quickly turned into a traveler's nightmare. The pair developed painful blisters and swelling in their feet that they later learned were the ...

Doctors discovered live hookworms in a woman's stomach. A medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman’s stomach, shocking doctors who said she didn’t have the telltale gastrointestinal symptoms of ...