The oval-shaped body belongs to a marine flatworm, a group of invertebrates that can range in color from see-through to neon and seemingly glide along the bottom with hairlike protrusions all over ...

Parasite, zombie, leech—these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms ...

Most people don’t get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces. But Marissa Ledger isn't like most people.

Once again, hammerhead flatworms are wriggling into the spotlight — this time in Canada. The toxic and invasive pests, which originate from Southeast Asia, have the ability to regenerate even if ...

When we think of deadly animals, our minds usually go to lions and crocodiles, but in reality, many seemingly harmless animals take thousands of lives every year.

Schistosomiasis is caused by Schistosoma mansoni, a water-borne parasitic flatworm that can burrow into the skin, move through the bloodstream, and establish itself in the intestines. There it ...

Treatment is with albendazole or mebendazole, sometimes combined with prednisone in severe cases. Paragonimiasis is a parasitic infection with a flatworm which may enter the body through eating ...

Near-gap-free and near-error-free genomes of a susceptible bed bug strain and a superstrain with around 20,000-fold insecticide resistance offer the broadest look yet at the full scope of ...