YORK COUNTY, Pa.-- School is a breeding ground for many illnesses and ailments can be spread by children. Two of those ailments can be pin worms and lice. Today, Dr. Sean Campbell is stopping by the ...
DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...
Children share all kinds of things when they go back to school – books, pencils, stories from summer vacation and, unfortunately, pesky and sometimes dangerous parasites that rely on close contact ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Pediatricians all over the Tampa Bay area are flooded with kids feeling horrible. The stomach bug is causing them big pain, with plenty of vomiting and diarrhea. Even though flu ...
Dear Doctors: How on Earth did my son get pinworms? I didn’t even realize something was wrong until he started scratching his butt in his sleep. His pediatrician suspects pinworms. Does this mean the ...
If you’re of a certain generation, you’re likely to have clear memories of weekly dosings with cod liver oil (or castor oil, if you were particularly unlucky), a practice that was ostensibly a worm ...
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