Roundworms harbor viruses, which could be responsible for these parasites' painful symptoms in humans, scientists theorize.

Damaged mouse skin looked almost as good as new in less than two weeks, thanks to a protein from a parasitic roundworm.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new genomic-based approach that could aid global efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic roundworm ...

Photo: Peter Fischer/School of Medicine) Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed ...

Racoon roundworm lives in the intestines of raccoons. While raccoons themselves will not fall sick, their feces can carry the roundworms’ eggs. Humans ... susceptible to infection too, if ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced that two human cases of Baylisascaris procyonis – a parasite that ...

The parasitic roundworm behind the infection, called Baylisascaris procyonis ... including bleach. Humans get infected if they inadvertently eat soil or other material that has become contaminated ...

some accidentally infected species include domestic dogs and humans," Erica Susky, a certified infection control practitioner based in Canada, told Fox News Digital. "The roundworm infects new ...

(KTLA) — A rare parasitic infection that is linked to ... said that simple precautions can be taken by humans to avoid getting raccoon roundworm. “Our health is closely linked to the health ...

The parasitic infection is known as Baylisascaris procyonis and is a type of roundworm. Advert It sees Baylisascaris worms end up in the intestine of the animal it begins in and while that animal ...