The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported a startling medical case involving a worm parasite ...

A painful burning sensation in a woman's legs turned out to be the result of a parasite burrowing into her brain, her doctors have revealed. The 30-year-old, from New England, likely contracted the ...

In an alarming medical situation, physicians diagnosed a rare parasite, which had never been reported in a human being, as the source of intense lung infection, organ damage and memory loss in a woman ...

Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a parasitic roundworm, was found in a woman’s brain after a long trip to Thailand, Japan and Hawaii, according to a case report. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...