No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven’t accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

Praziquantel is used in veterinary medicine against this very tapeworm (and others) in dogs, cats and foxes, so potentially yes. Usually it's combined with an anthelminthic for a broader ...

In a bizarre effort to safeguard humanity’s health for centuries to come, scientists in Switzerland are freezing human feces. No, it’s not a joke. The initiative, called the Microbiota Vault, is based ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Doctors say it's a miracle after an Austin man successfully had a tapeworm removed from his brain. KXAN reports doctors think the man contracted the parasite in Mexico more than a ...

Scientists are freezing human poop to avert a disaster in the future. The Microbiota Vault project aims to collect 10,000 poop samples by 2029 in order to preserve microbes that can one day help ...

On the morning of Christmas Eve 2016, residents of a house in Fraser, Michigan, heard a curious pop, pop, popping sound coming from their walls. After initially dismissing it as melting snow falling ...