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The female worm can reach over a meter in length and, in general, the parasites can survive up to five years in a person's kidneys. Until 2019 , around 37 cases of infections in humans by this ...

The female worms quickly learned to draw a link between the odor of the harmful bacteria and the disease that it causes, and therefore chose to eat from the other bacterium.

A Nigerian scientist, Chukwuma Hilary Akpu, has put the country on the global research map with his groundbreaking study on worm mating behaviour, using artificial intelligence (AI) to ...

Filariae. Worms don't just invade the gut or lungs. Some of them work their way into other regions of the body. Take lymphatic filariasis, a condition that arises when certain worms of the ...

After leaving office, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter led a decades-long effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease, and he nearly lived to see it happen.Carter, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in ...

The female worms, which can be up to 3 feet long once mature, cause incredibly painful, open blisters usually on the infected person’s lower legs and feet — through which the worms emerge.

Over the course of a year, a pregnant female worm will grow into an adult that migrates toward the host’s skin. A blister soon forms, and when it bursts, the worm begins to slither its way out ...

This bright green sea creature contains a toxic pigment that protects it from predators, kills bacteria and determines the sex of larvae, turning males into a "living testacle." ...

The worms also seem to live in “harems” of tens or hundreds inside of a female’s mucous tube. There, they wait for her eggs to emerge so they can fertilize them. When the males run out of ...

The worm spreads via a variegated fruit fly, Phortica variegate, that feasts on the tears and salty eye secretions of various mammals. There's only limited data on P. variegate 's distribution in ...