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For two billion people around the planet, anemia, weakness and malaise are part of daily life. These symptoms are part of living with soil-transmitted helminths – more commonly known as intestinal ...

(CBS/AP) What does Jimmy Carter got against guinea worms? A lot. The former U.S. President is appealing to countries and donors to eradicate guinea worm disease from the world once and for all. The ...

Children collect daily family water needs from new boreholes, which supply filtered water free of guinea worm larvae. (Photo by Louise Gubb/Corbis via Getty Images) This week, the world celebrated the ...

There aren't many people who can pack up their farm and take it elsewhere, but that's what Jack Bestwick is doing. The Top End worm breeder is moving to New South Wales and taking his worm farm with ...

Nobody likes me. Everybody hates me. Guess I’ll go eat worms. Or you could just go watch the bizarro 1977 horror comedy The Worm Eaters. Rarely will you hear a song as cheery as this about a subject ...

Never has “feeling blue” carried such a sense of finality. A new study has revealed that the simple worm (Caenorhabditis elegans) meets its death in a flash of azure. According to researchers, the ...

A computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis has developed technology to stop malicious software – malware – such as viruses and worms long before it even has a chance to reach computers ...