Intestinal parasites, including intestinal worms ... are sometimes visible around the anal region at night when females lay their eggs on the surrounding skin. A doctor can analyze a sample ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

Many of these eggs can live in the environment for weeks or even months. A common intestinal parasite here in the South is the tapeworm, which is transmitted through the ingestion of a flea ...

instead they create eggs that leave the body in the host’s feces, UCLA experts say. The most common way of contracting an intestinal parasite is eating or drinking something contaminated with ...

Trichuris incognita is a newfound intestinal roundworm closely related ... pigs than those normally found in humans." The parasite's eggs are passed in infected people's feces; the eggs can ...

Most people don't get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces. But Marissa Ledger isn't like most people. "A lot of my research is focused on actually studying ...