Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The difficult-to-detect meningeal worm is spread by white-tailed deer and is a notorious killer of moose. AP Photo/Jim Cole, File ...

A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the ...

There are plenty of ways a politician vying for a presidential nomination could find themselves in the headline, but having the remains of a dead, brain-eating worm found in your skull is undoubtedly ...

Seizures in children are usually linked straight away to fever, family history or epilepsy, but doctors still keep running into cases where an infection of the nervous system is the real trigger. This ...