Schistosomiasis is a worm infection that can be picked up in warm freshwater. You could be swimming, washing yourself, or ...

An Oregon woman who had worms coming out of her eye is being called the first known human case of a parasitic infection spread by flies.

In the past 30 years, the annual incidence of guinea worm disease has gone from 3.5 million cases to just two dozen. But will we ever reach zero?

In a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors report that they first noted that the eye was bloodshot and inflamed, and the pupil was dilated and fixed. The man's vision in the eye ...

After weeks of intense rainfall across North Texas, residents are reporting an uptick in sightings of a bizarre and toxic invasive species. Known for its distinctive, flat, hammer-shaped head and ...

The man was afflicted by a parasitic roundworm typically found in cats and dogs. What’s worse, in order to retrieve the worm, the doctors had to literally suck out the man’s eye juices.

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