Experimental hookworm vaccine shows promising protection in phase 2 human trial

Researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in partnership with Baylor College of ...
News Medical

Scientists sequence genome of hookworm

In an advance that may potentially lead to new treatments for parasitic hookworms, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Cornell University have sequenced the genome of the ...
Time

You Might Be Hosting a Parasite Right Now. Here’s How to Tell

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. There are more parasites than any other organism on Earth—which is one of the reasons Emmitt Jolly finds ...
Kaleido Scope

Study finds no cases of soil-transmitted hookworm in Black Belt children, despite ongoing sanitation and public health crisis in region

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 ...