The Companion Animal Parasite Council report alerts pet owners, veterinarians and pet services about increase in positive hookworm tests, throughout the United States. Factors in the spread of ...

This story definitely has a yuck factor. It's about hookworms. When hookworm eggs land on moist, warm ground, via human feces, they develop into larvae, raise their tiny selves upward, and wave back ...

The hookworm, found in raw sewage and thought to be eradicated from the United States, has crawled its way into Alabama, where residents are growing increasingly fearful of the potentially ...

A 75-year-old woman, who has since recovered, didn’t have the gastrointestinal bleeding that usually accompanies the infection Journal of Medical Case Reports A medical scan showed live hookworms in a ...

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As pet owners, we need to be sure to monitor our pets for intestinal parasites. With all of the newer heartworm preventions, intestinal parasites are not being seen as much, but, for some situations, ...

Nearly a year ago, marine biologist Jimmy Bernot decided to let 50 hookworms dig their way into his wrist and multiply inside his body — all in the name of vaccine research. Bernot, a crustacean ...

Doctors discovered live hookworms in a woman's stomach. A medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman’s stomach, shocking doctors who said she didn’t have the telltale gastrointestinal symptoms of ...