After discovering the worms, blood tests also revealed the boy had anaemia, which occurs when the body doesn't produce enough healthy red blood cells, required for carrying oxygen around the body.

These worms are experts in regeneration – they ... multiple populations of other cells are recruited to swiftly restore the missing body section. It's a process called dedifferentiation, and ...

Pork can carry taenia solium larvae, a parasitic tapeworm. After eating infected pork, the larvae get into body tissues where ...

From easy to dismiss symptoms, like a cough and stomach ache, to more obvious signs like worms in your poo ... sometimes move to other parts of the body, such as the brain or liver, leading ...

A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm (Acanthocephala) has been dated to the Jurassic period, about 165 million years ago. It has characteristics of both Acanthocephala and tiny animals called ...