A recent X-ray scan showcasing calcified parasites embedded throughout a patient's body has gone viral, highlighting the ...

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...

Cestodes (tapeworms) form a monophyletic group of parasitic Platyhelminthes (flatworms ... So far, there is no single compilation of cestode life cycles. This database aims to collect and organise the ...

Cue the ew. A horrifying image of calcified parasites embedded in the soft tissue of a human body has gone viral after Sam ...

The patient’s condition, identified as cysticercosis, was caused by larval cysts of taenia solium (pork tapeworm) after ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley visits Kenya to see how the beef tapeworm needs to infect both beef cattle and humans to complete its life-cycle. He collects some infected beef in Kenya ...

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...