Doctors warn that the parasite cleanse trend misleads patients, causing health risks and delaying proper diagnosis of ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Some family members from South Dakota, Minnesota and Arizona were infected with brain worms, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released ...

When Dr. Isaac Chikwanha was a kid in Zimbabwe, he got schistosomiasis. At the time, he didn't think about the cause of this parasitic disease: a worm that penetrates your skin and takes up residence ...

You might think of parasites — and the diseases they cause — as a problem that will never affect you, and you wouldn’t be alone in that thought. But intestinal parasites affect humans and are not just ...

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 ...

A worm parasite that is typically found in rats and slugs, but can jump to mammals, has become more widespread across the southeastern region of the US, a new study by the Centers for Disease Control ...

In late April of 1880, the Muncie Daily Times wrote that Munsonian doctor William Egbert had removed a 46-foot-long tapeworm from an unnamed fellow citizen. This was the first of many ghastly tapeworm ...