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Many of these flea medications also treat lice, mites, intestinal worms, and life-threatening heartworm infections. Safe and effective flea and tick treatments include topical spot-ons ...

Buried in the skin of her ear canal was a tick, according to the report. Ticks have an enzyme in their saliva that causes inflammation and, in some cases, paralysis, doctors said. Erik Karits via ...

The NWS flies lay eggs in the wounds or areas of exposed tissue where the worms later hatch. If a wound is infested, it can become larger and cause damage or death to an animal, according to Texas ...

Veterinarian-approved cat flea medicines are safe and effective and often control other parasites like ticks, worms, and lice. I made my top picks for this guide after consulting veterinarians and ...

Former President Jimmy Carter worked for decades to eradicate Guinea worm disease around the world. Whereas 3.5 million cases of the painful parasitic infection were recorded in 1986, preliminary ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms up to 3 feet long. The noodle-thin ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Since the re-emergence of guinea worm in a remote village in South Sudan, the Carter Center has returned to ...

Jimmy Carter delivering a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm in 2016. © Eddie Mullholland-WPA Pool via Getty Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is dead at ...