| The blood loss caused by hookworms can produce a microcytic hypochromic anemia. |
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| Our vet also found that he had hookworms and whipworms and these are now gone. |
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| The most common form of worms was hookworms, infecting 21.6 percent of those surveyed. |
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| Certain species of hookworms can affect humans when the larvae burrow under humans' skin and cause an itchy rash. |
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| Diseases such as malaria were endemic, while blackwater fever, dengue fever, dysentery, yaws, and hookworms were a constant scourge. |
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| They are testing a protein derived from hookworms that could be used to prevent blood clots in stroke victims. |
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| In the case of hookworms, there may also be intestinal bleeding and anemia. |
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| When the animal defecates, the hookworms are shed and the larvae are picked up by humans through breaks in the skin, hair follicles and even through intact skin. |
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| Studies have shown that hookworms reduce the risk of asthma by decreasing the activity of the human host's immune system. |
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| Little threadworms and hookworms are about one centimetre long, while roundworms are about 20 cm long and our friend the tapeworm can reach up to 10 metres in length. |
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| In vitro and in vivo studies indicate that VERMOX mebendazole inhibits larval development for the eggs of Trichuris trichiura and hookworms. |
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| Spread by unsanitary conditions, hookworms infect about one billion people worldwide. |
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| Both children and adults may get severe anemia if they have hookworms, malaria, chronic diarrhea or dysentery. |
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| This veterinary drug is also approved in dogs for the treatment of infection with intestinal parasites called hookworms. |
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| Being infected with hookworms really feels like you're being drained of life. |
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| Now I'm working with local people and international agencies to find the best way to give the Belen hookworms the boot. |
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| If a person suffering from hookworms defecates on open ground, the eggs of hookworms mix with the earth. |
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| It is not uncommon for a child to carry up to 1,000 hookworms, roundworms and whipworms that deplete blood and nutrients. |
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| Roundworms, tapeworms, and hookworms most commonly infect cats. |
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| They can transfer the eggs and cysts of various cestodes and nematodes, particularly hookworms and ascarids. |
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| And those that live on animals, including pinworms, hookworms and trichinae, have caused untold misery. |
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| The pups in Australia were being affected by hookworms, but they were also coming out in large numbers with warmer temperatures. |
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| Dog faeces may contain parvovirus, whipworms, hookworms, roundworms, threadworms, campylobacteriosis, giardia, and coccidia. |
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| The American Heartworm Society recommends this practice as the best way to prevent heartworms and other parasites like roundworms and hookworms. |
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| The hookworms also obtain nutrients by sucking blood from the child. |
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| When another person walks barefoot over that same ground, or in any way makes contact with the contaminated dirt, the hookworms can enter the body through the skin. |
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| Roundworms and hookworms are harder to spot. |
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| To avoid getting hookworms, wear shoes and use a latrine. |
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| If you have hookworms or whipworms you may be anemic. |
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| The most important helminthic parasites in wastewater are intestinal worms, including the stomach worm, tapeworms, the whipworm, the hookworms, and the threadworm. |
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| Dogs can be infested by tapeworms, roundworms, hookworms and whipworms. |
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| Overall parasites and hookworms are killing off enough pups to place them in endangerment. |
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| The roundworm group of helminths includes pinworms, whipworms, roundworms, and hookworms. |
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| Doctors point out that contact with raw sewage leads to diseases such as cholera and hepatitis and, in children, it could lead to infection with hookworms and threadworms. |
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| Hookworms are small parasitic worms, with hook-like appendages on their mouths, that feed off the wall of the small intestine and can cause severe damage. |
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