It literally made his skin crawl. A sewer worker in Spain had the internet gagging after he showed up at the hospital with worms squirming about under his skin, as detailed in the New England Journal ...

And once it's there, it moves around. And around. There's a new report on the worm out this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. It sounds like a scene straight out of a nightmare. One morning ...

Doctors in Spain diagnosed a man with an unusual roundworm infection after watching an army of larvae writhe and slither under his skin, blanketing his whole body in an ever-shifting rash. Doctors ...

Holidaymakers were today warned about the dangers of parasites after a teenager's 'rash' was discovered to be worms crawling underneath his skin. Doctors revealed the 19-year-old developed the curved ...

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Threadworms spend up to 10 minutes exploring human skin before finding the best place to burrow in. When a specific dopamine signal is blocked, the worms almost completely stop trying to penetrate the ...

The horrific photos of the former sanitation worker’s infection look more like shoddily-done tattoos than a parasite, because his doctors drew outlines of the initial placement of the larvae just ...