Nutrition and lifestyle consultant Madeleine Helm hosts Zoom sessions on health and recently discussed parasite types, their health effects and ways to reduce infection risks.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 1.5 billion people are affected by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and a further two billion are threatened by these diseases. If left ...

Infections from the parasites typically occur through ... about 100 species of foodborne trematodes can infect humans, including liver flukes, lung flukes, and intestinal flukes.

This finding underscores the complex life cycles of blood flukes, which often involve multiple host species, including fish and invertebrates. The ability of these parasites to switch between ...

Human intestinal flukes (Fasciolopsis buski and Heterophyes ... electron microscopy. F. buski worms recovered from patients, which had been cured by oral treatment of 1 X 15, 1 X 25 or 1 X 40 ...

However, some species may contain dangerous parasites that pose ... caused by a cat liver fluke, can affect domestic animals like dogs, cats, foxes, and humans. Infection occurs after consuming ...

“The discovery of tool use and social learning among capuchin monkeys was a fluke for us that turned into the discovery of a series of non-human cultural processes. The more we study, the more ...

It predominates in school-age children, and significant worm burdens are not uncommon. The causal organism is Fasciolopsis buski, a giant intestinal fluke that infects humans and causes diarrhoea, ...

This is essential for medicines to remain effective in order to protect human and animal health ... This means that anti-parasitics (such as fluke/worm products) will now only be available on foot of ...

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Blue whale diving and only the fluke is showing. Image via Peter van der Sluijs ... pushing ten tons of blood through a circulatory system that includes arteries large enough for a human to crawl ...