When you hear the term "ringworm," do you imagine tiny worms crawling on your skin? Then you may have fallen prey to one of the many misconceptions about this common skin condition. In reality ...

Despite its name, ringworm isn’t an infection caused by worms or a parasite. Rather, it’s an infection caused by fungi that ...

Parasitic worms are difficult to kill with current therapies, but their commensal bacteria might be their Achilles’ heel.

In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program in 1986, the disease was endemic in 20 African and Asian countries, with ...

In the United States, the most well-known skin-penetrating parasitic worm, called a nematode, is the hookworm. But globally, it is estimated that over 600 million people are infected with the skin ...

Human botfly larvae, for example, burrow under your skin, forming a pus-filled pimple. Meanwhile, thousands of young Loa loa worms can travel throughout your body —even across your eyeball!

Ringworm is caused by infection of the hair and surface layers of the skin by fungi. It occurs in all species of animals including man. Fungal infections cause little, if any, permanent damage or ...

“Once you’ve seen a small child with a two- or three-foot-long live Guinea worm protruding from her body, right through her skin, you never forget it,” Carter wrote in a 1990 op-ed for the ...