Human botfly larvae, for example, burrow under your skin, forming a pus-filled pimple. Meanwhile, thousands of young Loa loa worms can travel ... Then the larvae wriggle into your skin, creating ...

Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing ...

Evidence of a 500-year-old African parasite in Bruges reveals how medieval trade networks spread infectious diseases.

Slate Boyer with North Dakota Human and Health ... when someone goes into the water where the Schistosomes are, they can attach the person and eventually burrow into their skin,” said Boyer.

They breathe through their skin, which must remain moist ... in winter or baking hot in the summer, worms are able to survive by burrowing deep into the soil - at the same time escaping from ...