In the middle of 2020, Alex Loukas deliberately infected himself with intestinal worms. The procedure was pretty straightforward: he used a Band-Aid to press a few larvae of the New World hookworm ...

According to WHO, intestinal worms or soil-transmitted helminthiases ... trichiura (whipworm), and Ancylostoma duodenale or Necator americanus (hookworms) and are among the commonest infections ...

Soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) are caused by four species of parasitic worms (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and the hookworms Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus ...

Artificial intelligence can spot parasitic worm eggs in human faecal samples ... and hookworms such as Ancylostoma duodenale ...

Soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) are caused by four species of parasitic worms—Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Ancylostoma duodenale, and Necator americanus—and are transmitted ...