A woman and her adult son had antibodies to the parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis after consuming raw centipedes purchased from a vegetable market in China, researchers found. This marks the first ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) originated in southern Europe and the Mediterranean. Introduced to the United States and Mexico a few hundred years ago, it has ...

Centipedes have been known to bite, though it is extremely rare; a bite is supposedly reminiscent of a wasp sting. It can be startling to encounter a many-legged creature scurrying around your house, ...

A foodborne parasite detected in two patients in a Chinese hospital has been traced to consumption of raw wild centipedes, according to a case report by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and ...