Tapeworms are intestinal parasites that are shaped similarly to a tape measure. Their eggs typically enter a human host from animals through food, particularly raw or undercooked meat. Tapeworm ...

The intact tapeworm spanned 1.88 m (6.2 feet), the doctors wrote. Tapeworms can grow to be longer than 11.5 feet (3.5 m) and live for years in a person's gut, according to the National Library of ...

The researchers concluded that the man most likely contracted the parasite via “autoinfection.” He may have gotten an intestinal tapeworm, called taeniasis, from eating undercooked bacon that ...

In humans, the infection is insidious, with an asymptomatic incubation period of between 5 and 15 years. Once the disease develops, about 90 percent of people will die within 10 years if they are ...

Dr Ghali said patients have treatment options such as anti-parasitic therapy, steroids, anti-epileptics (neurocysticercosis) as well as surgical removal. (Also Read: 30-year-old eel gets CT scan ...

An aggressive “tumour like” tapeworm is on the rise in Alberta and Ontario, experts warn. Fox or coyote tapeworms (they are called fox tapeworms in Europe), have been found in foxes, coyotes ...

Neurocysticercosis is a parasitic disease caused by the larval (cystic) form of the pork cestode tapeworm, Taenia solium, and is a major cause of acquired seizures and epilepsy worldwide.

WATERLOO REGION—Dogs and humans can be infected by a potentially deadly tapeworm that University of Guelph researchers say is now in Southern Ontario. The tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis ...