Image-based artificial intelligence spots parasitic worm infections in children's stool samples. Credit: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012041, CC-BY 4.0 ...

One specimen, a thick-shelled oval, is the egg of a parasitic nematode worm. The other five are unidentified worm eggs or protozoan cysts. Past studies , the paper notes, have only found instances ...

Importantly, the AI also proved capable of identifying infections even with relatively few parasitic worm eggs. In fact, it spotted 79 cases that the human expert had missed.

At night, female worms come outside to lay eggs in the skin around your anus. If you scratch the area, the eggs get on your fingers or under your nails, and then spread to the next thing you touch.

Intestinal worms are organisms that feed off the human body. Tapeworm, hookworm, pinworm, and other types of worms affect the body in different ways. A person may notice worms in stool. Types of ...

Children have a higher risk and may get infected by accidentally eating eggs that are in soil or dog poop. These eggs can hatch into larvae that get encysted in various organs and lead to serious ...

A father has warned other parents to check their children‘s treats after his daughter found wormlike creatures inside a chocolate egg. Clive Henare from North Brisbane bought a chocolate egg ...

Worms are transmitted via the fecal-oral route, meaning that microscopic parasite eggs in soil can spread to drinking water or food, after which they are ingested through the mouth of a new host.

In fact, most kids in Australia (or any other rich country) get very few worms compared to kids in places where poor hygiene practices make all sorts of worms common.

But their most noticeable effect appears to be on the back passage, since the female worms migrate there, usually at nighttime, to lay their eggs. This results in the common symptoms of a very ...

We’re not just talking about any poop—it’s the biggest human poop ever found. Discovered in 1972 beneath what is now a Lloyds ...

The egg problem. The problem isn’t usually the adult worms, which live in the caecum (a pouch where the small and large intestines meet) for up to two months.