The comedian Shappi Khorsandi once commented that she used the mythical concept of "sugar worms" to get her children to brush their teeth after sweets. It's a trick I poached to convince my daughter ...

The cases were detected during a joint survey conducted in June by the respective district health departments and the West ...

The worms impact the immune system while taking up permanent residence in their gastrointestinal tract,” he says. ... elephantiasis and African river blindness, diseases that afflict 1.4 billion ...

Brugia malayi worms. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 21, 2007, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Elodie Ghedin and colleaguesand ...

Adult worms can live for five to seven years and, when they mate, can produce millions of boogying babies, called microfilariae. ... (lymphedema), elephantiasis, and, in men, swelling of the scrotum.

Paris, France: People infected with a common parasitic worm may be twice as likely to acquire the HIV virus that causes AIDS, a field study from Tanzania reported Wednesday. The parasite ...

Volcanic Minerals, Not Worms, Caused Disease Outbreak in Uganda. An outbreak of elephantiasis among farmers in western Uganda was the surprising result of working barefoot, researchers report.

The center also works to fight six preventable diseases including guinea worm, river blindness, trachoma — a bacterial infection that impacts the eyes, snail fever, elephantiasis — which can ...