Prior infection by a parasitic hookworm has been shown to protect mice from severe SARS-CoV-2 disease, offering a potential explanation as to why certain human populations seemed to fare better during ...

"Hookworms are route flexible but not route identical," he said.

Doctors discovered live hookworms in a woman's stomach. A medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman's stomach, shocking doctors who said she didn't have the telltale gastrointestinal symptoms of ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Expelled worms which were key to the study. Scientists treated the population with worming tablets, collected their faeces then sieved it to collect worms. This enabled the research team to to plot ...