Doctors in India recently made a rare and unsettling discovery after a 35-year-old man was admitted to the emergency room ...

Identified as ascaris lumbricoides, this type of roundworm can grow up to 35cm long and live in the human ... worms, blood tests also revealed the boy had anaemia, which occurs when the body ...

From easy to dismiss symptoms, like a cough and stomach ache, to more obvious signs like worms in your poo ... sometimes move to other parts of the body, such as the brain or liver, leading ...

A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm (Acanthocephala) has been dated to the Jurassic period, about 165 million years ago. It has characteristics of both Acanthocephala and tiny animals called ...