Journal of Medical Case Reports A medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman’s stomach, shocking doctors who said she didn’t have the telltale gastrointestinal symptoms of the parasitic ...

A 75-year-old woman, who has since recovered, didn’t have the gastrointestinal bleeding that usually accompanies the ...

During an endoscopy procedure, live hookworms were found inside her small intestine and eggs were later discovered in her stool. Getty Images photo The woman had first gone to the doctor after ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates hookworms - large parasites which invade our immune system. The worms have co-evolved with us to secrete chemicals which alter our immune system ...

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have ...

After returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic, a Canadian couple realized they'd acquired a cutaneous larva migrans, or hookworm, infection. The infection was most likely caused by ...

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Infested by hookworm. videoInfested by hookworm In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates hookworms - large parasites which invade our immune system. He meets a sufferer of Crohn’s ...