Tapeworms are a group of parasites that depend on humans for growth and cause intestinal infection in them. Tapeworm symptoms and signs include stomach pain, loss of appetite, weight loss.

Healthline explain that symptoms of a tapeworm infection can include diarrhoea, abdominal pain, nausea, weakness and fever. While you can also experience an allergic reaction, bacterial infections ...

X-ray images reveal the disturbing result of a culinary blunder that led to a man becoming infested with tapeworm eggs. Sam Ghali, an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of ...

Dr Ghali said that the disease, which is termed cysticercosis, is due to the presence of larval cysts of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The parasite infects humans through eating raw or undercooked ...

Essentially these are larval cysts of taenia solium - also known as the pork tapeworm." According to Ghali, this occurs from a human consuming ... lead to neurological symptoms like headaches ...

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 ... hookworms to reduce his symptoms. Infested by leeches.

This is the disgusting and shocking scene which awaited medics giving an X-ray to a man whose body was filled with parasitic tapeworm eggs ... lead to neurological symptoms like headaches ...

Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from ... their bodies because it generally causes no symptoms,” Kuramochi said. Born in 1955, Kuramochi ...

The patient’s condition, identified as cysticercosis, was caused by larval cysts of taenia solium (pork tapeworm) after consuming raw or undercooked pork. A shocking image of calcified parasites ...