White-tailed deer host these brain worms, but they don’t actually get the disease, which makes it harder for biologists to ...

New research, published in The Journal of Immunology, discovered that a parasitic worm suppresses neurons in the skin to evade detection. The researchers suggest that the worm likely evolved this ...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allegedly contracted a parasitic worm more than a decade ago, which he claimed ate a portion of his brain before the worm died. Kennedy ...