Two things you never want to happen to you: finding a worm crawling around in your face; and ending up as a case study in a medical journal because of it. Unfortunately, a Russian woman just had both ...

In Austria, the parasitic roundworms Dirofilaria repens and Dirofilaria immitis are usually considered to be unpleasant souvenirs from travels abroad. A preliminary study by Vetmeduni Vienna has ...

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MOSCOW -- A Russian woman who watched perplexed as a lump appeared on her face and then moved from one place to the next discovered the lump was alive. Specifically, the woman had a parasitic worm, ...

Dirofilaria infections, commonly referred to as heartworm disease, comprise a significant global health concern affecting both veterinary and human medicine. Predominantly caused by the filarioid ...

MOSCOW (CNN) - Through a series of selfies, a woman documented a lump under her skin for weeks before doctors were able to remove it -- and it didn't stay in one place, according to a case report in ...

Until a short while ago, infections with the parasite Dirofilaria repens was regarded as a classical traveler's disease. Mosquitoes from abroad passed the parasite on to dogs, in some cases even to ...

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