There are parasites all over the world that can infect humans. Some of them are easy to avoid, but others are more common ...

Most people don’t get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces. But Marissa Ledger isn't like most people.

Different types of intestinal worms may appear in human poop. These include pinworms, Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworms, ...

a man in his 40s discovered a white thread-like object in his feces,” Kuramochi said. “Dr. Satoru Kamegai, our museum’s first director, had the man take an agent that gets rid of parasites.” ...

A potentially deadly tapeworm has been found in an ... and domestic canids that can be transmitted to humans through exposure to infected animal feces, and it might be lurking much closer to ...

Scientists in the Czech Republic have described the first domestic case of infection with a parasite. Diphyllobothriasis (dibothriocephalosis) is caused ...