It started with a bizarre burning sensation in her feet. Over the next two days, the searing pain crept up her legs. Any light touch made it worse, and over-the-counter pain medicine offered no relief ...

A painful burning sensation in a woman's legs turned out to be the result of a parasite burrowing into her brain, her doctors ...

Scientists are warning that a parasitic brain worm that can be ingested through contaminated produce has been found in states around the Southeast. Rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, is ...