Football-shaped whipworm eggs pictured in the top row, circular tapeworm eggs with a dark outer shell pictured in the bottom row. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--Denizens of the Asuka Period (592-710) feasted on pork and may have done so routinely, archaeologists deduced from parasite eggs excavated from a toilet structure found ...

Others may mistake something in their stool for a parasite ... they create eggs that leave the body in the host’s feces, UCLA experts say. The most common way of contracting an intestinal ...

Artificial intelligence can spot parasitic worm eggs in human faecal samples – including those from parasite species ...

The roundworms and whipworms are believed to have infected people who ate raw vegetables with the parasites' eggs attached. Since the eggs and pollen from edible plants were detected in high ...