The vaccine specifically targets Necator americanus, which is the most common type of hookworm. By interfering with a certain ...

A new collaboration between researchers at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. will aid researchers in providing care for ...

A phase 2 trial has shown promising protective efficacy for what could become the first vaccine against hookworm, a parasitic disease affecting hundreds of millions of people around the world. The ...

A historical look at how hookworm infections in the American South contributed to misconceptions about work and health, and how public health efforts changed the narrative.

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 ...

There’s been a significant breakthrough in the development of a vaccine to prevent hookworm infection – a parasite which causes serious disease in tens of millions of people globally. Trials of the ...

The study tested stool specimens from 704 children from Alabama’s Wilcox and Perry counties for STH. Results surprisingly found no traces of STH in any samples, despite 12 percent of the study cohort ...

This story definitely has a yuck factor. It's about hookworms. When hookworm eggs land on moist, warm ground, via human feces, they develop into larvae, raise their tiny selves upward, and wave back ...

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 ...