| Diseases such as malaria were endemic, while blackwater fever, dengue fever, dysentery, yaws, and hookworms were a constant scourge. |
| They are testing a protein derived from hookworms that could be used to prevent blood clots in stroke victims. |
| The blood loss caused by hookworms can produce a microcytic hypochromic anemia. |
| In the case of hookworms, there may also be intestinal bleeding and anemia. |
| Our vet also found that he had hookworms and whipworms and these are now gone. |
| Certain species of hookworms can affect humans when the larvae burrow under humans' skin and cause an itchy rash. |
