Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We ...

Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We can see ...

Why are foodborne infections more common in the summer, and what are food safety practices that everyone should follow?

Mouth larvae, or oral myiasis, is a rare but concerning condition arising from poor oral hygiene or compromised health, ...

Infection by certain wrigglers may reduce inflammation and fight obesity and diabetes. Scientists are working to turn the ...

In the Revillagigedo Archipelago in the eastern tropical Pacific, video footage was collected at two dive sites known as The ...

Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout ... A bluestreak cleaner wrasse at work cleaning ...

then accidentally swallowing the tapeworm eggs by touching your mouth. Infected pets can have tapeworm eggs in their stool and their fur may be contaminated. “Handling animals like coyotes ...

“Humans are not infected by the adult tapeworms within the dog, but instead ingest Echinococcus eggs passed in dog feces by accident,” she continued. “If a dog has fecal soiling on its ...

Tapeworms come from eating undercooked meat ... often through hand-to-mouth contact - for example, touching contaminated surfaces or scratching the anal area. "Also, walking barefoot on soil ...

This generally happens by a delightful "hand-to-mouth" transfer or contamination of food. In humans, the parasites invade organs much like they do in voles, forming cancer-like masses in organs.

Mouth larvae are parasites that hatch and live inside the oral cavities of human and animal hosts. These pests can cause a dangerous infection called oral myiasis. This disorder rarely occurs in ...