If you have intestinal parasites, you may have digestive symptoms, including abdominal pain and diarrhea. Untreated worms may cause complications. Intestinal parasites, including intestinal worms ...

Parasitic worms live in and feed off living hosts, such as humans. Learn about transmission, treatment, how to avoid being a host, and more.

They found that his stool contained eggs from the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, a type of intestinal parasite. A. lumbricoides is one of the most common human parasitic worms worldwide.

The worms are a disease of the developing world, for the most part. They spread when an infected individual defecates outside, leaving behind stool that's contaminated with eggs.

Parasitic worms up to 27 centimeters long and a chronic liver infection found in a North Korean defector are providing a window into health conditions inside the secretive rogue state, experts say.

Worms A Key Factor In Healing Loke says that was good enough for the entrepreneur in San Francisco, who started looking for his own source of parasitic worm eggs.