Threadworms aren't the only worms (helminths) that invade humans. Hookworms, for example, affect about 470 million people worldwide. Infections in the UK are rarer, since hookworms favor a warmer ...

Still, while "the rate of hookworm infection remains low ... from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Oregon Woman Finds 14 Worms in Her Eye, Becoming First Known Human in History with Rare Infection “I just had this vision of hookworms making babies inside my baby’s body!” Kelli recalls.

Threadworms aren’t the only worms (helminths) that invade humans. Hookworms, for example, affect about 470 million people worldwide. Infections in the UK are rarer, since hookworms favour a ...

HOOKWORMS AND FRIENDS>> Peter Hotez, the director of the Sabin Institute's Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative, is prominent in Merrill Goozner's feature on the initiative's trials now getting underway ...

He explains how he infected himself with hookworms and describes how his quality ... beef tapeworm needs to infect both beef cattle and humans to complete its life-cycle. Infested by Toxoplasma ...

Over the past 15 years our researchers have led the development of new vaccines to combat NTDs. Through their activities a human hookworm vaccine is in phase 1 clinical trials as is a schistosomiasis ...

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 medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman’s stomach ... from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Doctors discovered live hookworms in a woman's stomach.