Can worms cause infertility?

To see how these parasitic worms might affect fertility, Aaron Blackwell of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his colleagues collected ... But parasitic infections can also cause life-threatening complications during pregnancy, says Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. read more

Worms can cause infertility. Worms, and many parasites feed off of people and the body will then protect itself and at times will even encyst the parasite within the body which has a probability of producing infection. Many of the infections today were parasite-derived. read more

No. But cause a lot of bothersome itching and are very contagious if you scratch and do not wash hands and scrub under nails. read more

Although some types of infection seem to lower a woman’s fertility, there’s evidence that women infected with roundworm have more children. This seems to be the case for the Tsimane people, who live in the Bolivian Amazon. read more