Four days ago we rescued a 6-month-old puppy from a shelter in the southeast of the United States. My vet says that she has roundworm and warned me that my kids (ages 3-8 years) could get visceral ...

Richard III may have been a blue-blooded royal, but to the roving parasites of the late Middle Ages he was just another piece of tasty human gut. New analysis of the king's remains indicate that ...

In an analysis of soil samples from twelve parks in Dublin, Ireland, park entrances were more heavily contaminated with infective roundworm eggs than any other tested park location. In an analysis of ...

A team of researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Leicester concluded that King Richard III suffered from a roundworm infection after finding multiple roundworm eggs (Ascaris lumbricoides) ...

King Richard III may have suffered from a parasite as nasty as his reputation. The remains of the medieval monarch -- villainized by William Shakespeare as a tyrant who killed his nephews in order to ...

LEICESTER, ENGLAND—Microscopic eggs from roundworms, a parasite spread through the swallowing of food, water, or soil contaminated with infected fecal matter, have been discovered in soil taken from ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that Richard III suffered from a roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides infection. Researchers based at the University of Cambridge and the University of Leicester have ...

Doggy park lovers, beware: Researchers in Ireland say they’ve pinpointed the park hot spots where roundworms are most likely to infect our precious pups. Scientists at Trinity College in Ireland led ...

A rare parasitic infection known as raccoon roundworm has been confirmed in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Two people in the South Bay area of Los ...