After returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic, a Canadian couple realized they'd acquired a cutaneous larva migrans, or hookworm, infection. The infection was most likely caused by ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates hookworms - large parasites which invade our immune system. The worms have co-evolved with us to secrete chemicals which alter our immune system ...

After entering the body, hookworms make their way to the small intestine. They can stay there for a year or longer before being released into your poop. People with hookworm may have symptoms like ...

Like the giant, eerily luminescent cube that hung over the middle of the arena at the start of the concert Sunday night at ...

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Tropical medicine is the study of the world’s major tropical diseases and related conditions, which include a group of 17 neglected tropical diseases (sometimes referred to as ‘NTDs’) such as hookworm ...

parasitic diseases like hookworm, schistosomiasis; and hemoglobinopathies, including sickle cell disease and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. Lastly, a practical approach to the ...

Roundworm parasites such as hookworm affect humans. Other varieties cause widespread illness in pets and livestock and some can lead to major losses of crops. Treatments already exist but ...

Rampant yellow fever and hookworm led to transformative vaccines. One billion people on the cusp of starvation made a Green Revolution possible. The crises we face today are more nuanced and much more ...

Neglected diseases of poverty are a group of chronic and disabling illnesses, such as Chagas disease, hookworm, and Dengue fever, that primarily impact extremely impoverished people. The diseases ...

The Humane Rescue Alliance (HRA) said it rescued six dogs, three puppies and three turtles from unsafe and unsanitary ...

Unsanitary conditions in Lowndes received nationwide attention beginning in 2017, after researchers from Baylor University reported finding genetic evidence of hookworm in stool samples from ...