Commonly known as ‘Monkey tapeworm’ the parasitic worm which rarely infects humans was found in a 10-year-old boy in Kurunegala, and is the longest Bertiella worm (70cm) reported globally ...

If you aren’t one of the 5 million people who’ve watched a 9-second video of a bizarre purple worm vomit a milky living tree all over a random man’s hand (perhaps in Thailand, judging from ...

Using a combination of morphological studies and DNA barcoding, the researchers identified 107 ribbon worm species, 98% of which are undescribed. The research team found that 93% of the discovered ...

A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, was discovered in South Africa's Karoo region, marking the first record from this arid area and indicating a historically more forested landscape.

Misinformation about ivermectin took hold during the Covid-19 pandemic and continues to circulate despite medical experts ...

A forty-fold increase in a Canadian strain of coyote-borne tapeworm that can cross to the human population is causing concerns for doctors in northern Alberta. Echinococcus multilocularis is a ...

It’s just doggone bad luck. Doctors discovered a cyst twice the size of a tennis ball in the pelvis of a pregnant woman who was rushed to the hospital following months of abdominal pain.

“He was brilliant at ‘the Worm’. We used to play the Mario song Let Me Love You. Nuno would blast the volume up: ‘Let me love you! Let me be the one to…!’ Everyone in the dressing room ...

Mopane worm poutine features the species of emperor moth, an important source of protein in South Africa. The “Spam-pede” bao bun, inspired by the Hawaiian snack, is filled with Spam ...

Ivermectin has been shown to be "clinically effective against certain worm infections and scabies," Akos Heinemann, research head in the department of pharmacology at the Medical University of ...