Health experts warn of rising worm infections in young children and encourage parents to follow six-monthly deworming schedules.

ABSTRACT: The diversity of snail intermediate hosts of schistosomes and infection rates are influenced by environmental determinants. Knowledge of these local environmental determinants is an ...

Up to two billion people globally are infected with soil-transmitted parasitic worms (helminths). Hookworms are a major cause of iron deficiency anemia because they feed on blood in the intestine.

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that artificial intelligence (AI) combined with portable digital microscopy improves the detection of intestinal worm infections, so-called ...

Chimie ParisTech, PSL University, CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences, Laboratory for Inorganic Chemical Biology, 7500 Paris, France Division of Molecular and Systems Toxicology, ...

LEGAZPI CITY – The Albay Provincial Health Office (PHO) has started distributing more than 280,000 tablets of deworming medicine to the 18 rural health units across the province. In an interview on ...

The novel drug, a fixed-dose combination of albendazole and ivermectin, seeks to offer a better tool against soil-transmitted helminths and help endemic countries reach the control goals set in WHO's ...

The Ministry of Health has intensified efforts to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in Western region through a Mass Drug Administration (MDA) campaign targeting intestinal worms and bilharzia ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction and Objectives: Soil-Transmitted-Helminthiasis (STH) is a public health problem in Cameroon. The control strategies currently in place, particularly chemoprevention, has ...

As climate changes, temperature isn’t the only factor to influence the spread of infectious diseases. Humidity plays a role, too, according to new research published this week (Feb. 25) in Ecology ...