Your daughter is not likely to be catching threadworms from animals as this type of worm almost always remains in the human body and does not have a developmental stage in an animal. Toxocariasis ...

The most common hookworm that infects humans is Ancylostoma duodena ... Pinworms are also sometimes referred to as threadworms or seatworms. Tapeworms are a type of flatworm that consists of ...

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Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

These species, were bipedal and close relatives of modern humans. They lived in parts of Northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, while the first populations of modern humans, Homo sapiens, lived in the ...

The New World Screwworm is a larva or maggot of the New World Screwworm fly, which lays eggs in a wound or live tissue like the nostrils, eyes or mouth, according to the Texas Department of Parks and ...

Scientists have long known that humans outside of Africa owe 2 to 3 percent of their genome to Neandertal ancestors. But now, using the oldest modern human DNA ever analyzed, two separate studies ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

A new study by biologists from the Scripps Research Institute shows that a bird flu virus is just a single mutation away from having human-ready receptors. If the H5N1 virus does make the switch ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses have caused widespread infections in dairy cows and poultry in the United States, with sporadic human cases. We describe characteristics of human ...

An AI startup called Artisan has managed to irritate virtually everybody with a controversial ad campaign in San Francisco, which has littered the city with billboards reading "Stop Hiring Humans." ...