Football-shaped whipworm eggs pictured in the top row, circular tapeworm eggs with a dark outer shell pictured in the bottom row. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...

If you have an intestinal worm infection, you may be able to see worms or parts of worms (common with tapeworms in your stool.) Eggs and larvae are harder to see. The worms all look different ...

The eggs hatch, producing immature larvae that develop and move ... It is effective against all intestinal worms including tapeworms, and lungworms as well as liver flukes. It has a 27-day withdrawal ...

"Individuals are continually exposed throughout their life to infectious eggs from the soil and our previous findings showed that the whipworms exploit the intestinal microflora to induce hatching of ...

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--Denizens of the Asuka Period (592-710) feasted on pork and may have done so routinely, archaeologists deduced from parasite eggs excavated from a toilet structure found ...

Park entrances have the highest concentration of Toxocara parasite eggs, followed by playgrounds, posing a health risk to ...

But an ancient parasite egg discovered in a 6,200-year-old grave hints that humans unwittingly spread disease using the earliest farming technology. The schistosomiasis parasite egg was unearthed ...

However, eggs are difficult to spot and you'll likely need to bring the stool to your vet for identification. In fact, "most intestinal parasites are actually identified in a fecal sample by ...