Understand the risks associated with white worms in cat feces. Find out what is a white worm in cat poop and how to address ...

Despite affecting an estimated 56 million women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa, Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) ...

Female genital schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, devastates women amid poor sanitation and medical misdiagnoses.

Watch out for salad lunches that you are ordering at this time of the year, when water-borne diseases are at their peak. You ...

Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good ...

In 2013, nearly one million school-aged children in these endemic areas were treated for schistosomiasis in Kenya.

Praziquantel (PZQ) is currently the only drug widely used for the treatment of schistosomiasis, but the antimalarial drug mefloquine (Mef) possesses interesting antischistosomal properties.

A group of researchers has developed a new formulation for the only drug available on the market to treat helminths, as worms such as schistosomes and tapeworms are known. According to the World ...

Praziquantel is sold in large tablets that are difficult to swallow, especially for children and pets such as cats and dogs, which are also colonized by helminths and require preventive treatment. The ...

solium antibodies while administering anti-epileptics, steroids, and what was then a newly-studied anti-helminthic drug called praziquantel. But how many patients with more elusive forms of NCC ...

There is a treatment, praziquantel, a drug that paralyses the worms, but access is critically limited in the countries hit hardest. The 5 'mistakes' putting you at risk of worms.. Dr Angad Dhillon ...