A toddler was rushed to a hospital in Indonesia after not passing bowels in three days, which left him bloated. Doctors at ...

Roundworms are one of the most terrifying parasites that infect humans, and the Ascaris roundworm is the most common. Ascaris ...

MEDICS were shocked to learn a little boy’s constipation was in fact dozens of worms blocking his digestive tract. The ...

Sarah Williams-Blangero and colleagues from Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research show that genes on chromosomes 1 and 13 are significant for the human infection with the roundworm Ascaris ...

Foodborne illness typically traces back to contaminated meat or greens, but intentional contamination has a grim legacy that stretches across human ...

The Ascaris roundworm leads to an infection called aschariasis ... there were about 437,000 homicides in 2012, making humans the second most deadly animal (and the deadliest mammal) to humans.