Doctors didn’t know why the woman wasn’t getting better after being given medication for anemia and a bacterial stomach ...

A 75-year-old woman, who has since recovered, didn’t have the gastrointestinal bleeding that usually accompanies the ...

Threadworms aren't the only worms (helminths) that invade humans. Hookworms, for example, affect about 470 million people worldwide. Infections in the UK are rarer, since hookworms favor a warmer ...

However when the problems persisted doctors carried out an endoscopy—inserting a camera into the gut via the mouth—and found live hookworms crawling in her gut. Tests also showed that ...

Threadworms aren’t the only worms (helminths) that invade humans. Hookworms, for example, affect about 470 million people worldwide. Infections in the UK are rarer, since hookworms favour a ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates hookworms - large parasites which invade our immune system. The worms have co-evolved with us to secrete chemicals which alter our immune system ...

Journal of Medical Case Reports A medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman’s stomach, shocking doctors who said she didn’t have the telltale gastrointestinal symptoms of the parasitic ...

A medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman’s stomach, shocking doctors who said she didn’t have the telltale gastrointestinal symptoms of the parasitic infection. The Chinese farmer, 75, first ...