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

The most common hookworm that infects humans is Ancylostoma duodena ... but they can also be contracted through feces of infected animals or people. Tapeworms cause a disease called taeniasis ...

The tapeworm taenia solium enters the human body by ingesting the parasite ... using the bathroom or through water contaminated with feces. Only when the eggs are ingested via fecal-oral ...

It occurs when infectious eggs, shed in the feces of a human tapeworm carrier, are ingested. The condition often spreads through faecal contamination, typically due to improper handwashing or ...

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 ...

a man in his 40s discovered a white thread-like object in his feces,” Kuramochi said. “Dr. Satoru Kamegai, our museum’s first director, had the man take an agent that gets rid of parasites.” ...