According to the Professors Richard Grencis and Ian Roberts, Whipworms -- which bury into the large intestine -- have their own gut flora which live inside their own intestines which they say help ...

Cat whipworms infect only cats, so humans are not at risk. While there are rare cases of humans contracting whipworms from dogs, there are no such reports involving cats.

A whipworm infection is an infection of the large intestine caused by whipworm parasites. Learn about whipworm infection symptoms, treatment, and prevention.

Whipworm is spread when another human ingests these eggs. While some whipworm infections are asymptomatic, others can cause bloody diarrhea, anemia, and rectal prolapse.

Diagnosing whipworms can be tricky. We look for the microscopic eggs in stool samples, but those shifty worms tend to release eggs intermittently, and in lower numbers that many other types of ...

Some bugs are good for our health, and a pig parasite called the whipworm appears to be one of them. Whipworm eggs have been found in human studies to reduce symptoms in a host of diseases that ...

Using stool samples from Viking latrines, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have genetically mapped one of the oldest human parasites – the whipworm. The mapping reflects the parasite ...

Each monkey was fed 1,000 parasitic whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) eggs. After the treatment, four of the five monkeys had improved and regained weight.