Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain, are potentially the most damaging and the ...

Yes, it’s possible to have a worm living in your brain — in fact, it’s far more common than you might think, according to ...

Scientists this week published information on an unprecedented case in Australia, where they found and extracted a live parasitic worm from the brain of a woman in Canberra. The worm was some 8 ...

In early 2021, a 64-year-old woman from south-eastern New South Wales began dealing with stomach aches and diarrhoea, which ...

Sanjaya Senanayake 5:12 Yeah, well look to, I guess answer the second question soon after the worm was removed from the brain, we started her on anti parasitic treatment, and she very quickly ...

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...

In the United States, the most well-known skin-penetrating parasitic worm, called a nematode, is the hookworm. But globally, ...

Kennedy Jr. claimed that a bout of memory loss and mental fogginess in 2010 was the result of mercury poisoning and a parasitic "worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died." ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

Well, that same parasite everyone’s been avoiding might actually be the next big thing in brain medicine. Scientists just dropped a bombshell study in Nature Microbiology that’s got the medica ...