It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites. The partial ...

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Parasitologists in China have discovered one of the world’s earliest tapeworm fossils, and might have their hands on the only fossilized tapeworm remains that aren’t traces from another animal. The ...

The Chinese woman is believed to have become infected after eating undercooked beef while travelling in south-east Asia A woman had this 8ft-long (2.5-metre) tapeworm removed from her stomach after ...

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 ...

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...

AND EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. IT’S THE FIRST TIME THAT IT’S BEEN IDENTIFIED IN HUMANS. DR. ELIZABETH TALBOT IS, AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST AT DARTMOUTH AND THE STATE’S ...