‘People should be aware’: eggs of tiny, infectious worm found in parks in New York and Europe

The Toxocara worm can spread to humans via cat or dog feces, making children who play in sand or soil particularly at riskScattered in the sandboxes and dog runs around the world, there’s aparasite invisible to the naked eye that mostly infects cats and dogs. It’s a tiny worm that lives in the animals’ muscles and digestive systems, but can spread to others.Sometimes, though, it infects humans. Increasingly researchers are concerned that children are inadvertently consuming the