A rare parasitic infection that is linked to raccoons has been detected in two people in Southern California, the Los Angeles ...

Two people in Los Angeles County are sick with a rare parasitic infection known as 'raccoon roundworm,' according to ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced that two human cases of Baylisascaris procyonis – a parasite that ...

A rare parasitic infection known as raccoon roundworm has been confirmed in Los Angeles. The infection, Baylisascaris procyonis, can affect the brain, spinal cord and eyes.

The parasite that causes the disease, Baylisascaris procyonis, lives in the intestines of raccoons. While it doesn't make ...

The parasite that causes the disease lives in the intestines of raccoons and can cause serious illness in humans.

The parasite can infect the spinal cord, brain and eyes, and it can lead to swelling of the brain, officials said.

The worm she saw was likely an anisakid roundworm, the most common parasite found in marine fish. Variously called herring worms, cod worms, seal worms and sushi worms, the threadlike nematodes ...

Gause, Director of the Center for Immunity and Inflammation at Rutgers, investigated a protein called TGM that is produced by Heligmosomoides polygyrus, a parasitic roundworm that lives in the ...

The parasitic infection is known as Baylisascaris procyonis and is a type of roundworm. Advert It sees Baylisascaris worms ...

“The adult parasite is a long, pearly-white roundworm that inhabits the terminal branches of the common carotid arteries, generally at the angle of the jaw. The females are about the length and ...