TAMPA, Florida -- It's like something out of a science-fiction movie -- a brain-eating parasitic worm living in your eye. But for one Florida man, it was reality. ***Warning: This story contains ...

WASHINGTON (WDCW) – The country’s first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite already wreaking havoc on cattle and driving up beef prices, has been reported in Maryland, ...

Kansas health officials say they are creating response plans in the event a flesh-eating parasite makes its way into the ...

Interestingly, carnivorous fish like tuna, salmon, and swordfish don’t fall under this “humans don’t eat carnivores” rule.

More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contained an introduced parasite capable of infecting humans, according to a new study from researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

Bone worms (the red animals in this picture) were first discovered in the early 2000s, but these animals are believed to have evolved more than 100 million years ago. Adapted from Fujiwara et al. via ...

The author of the 1973 children's book How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell, died late September of Parkinson's disease and other ailments. He was 91. Boiled, stewed, fried, fricasseed, slathered ...

Boiled, stewed, fried, fricasseed, slathered in peanut butter or horseradish. These are just a few of the culinary suggestions from the 1973 children's book "How To Eat Fried Worms." The author, ...