These microscopic creatures, known as Demodex mites, live on nearly everyone’s skin. For most ... Demodex mites are tiny parasites that primarily live in hair follicles and sebaceous glands ...

In the United States, the most well-known skin-penetrating parasitic worm ... to carbon dioxide play an important role in how these parasites interact with human hosts as they pass through ...

When the infected mosquito bites another person, the microscopic worms pass from the mosquito through the skin, and travel to the lymph vessels. In the lymph vessels they grow into adults.