"Small wriggling tapeworm segments work their way out of your cat or dog’s anus, leaving egg packets in your bed. While all of this might sound dramatic, it can and does happen," says Dr. MacMillan.

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 ...

Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient’s mouth, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In January 2013, a 41-year-old man came to a hospital in Medellin, Colombia. He was in bad shape. He'd lost weight, had a fever, a tapeworm infestation and also had trouble breathing.

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A fish tapeworm infection, or diphyllobothriasis, occurs when a person eats raw or undercooked fish that's contaminated with the parasite Diphyllobothrium latum. Find out more about it here.

Cancer cells transmitted from a common tapeworm appear to have caused cancer-like tumors in a Colombian man with HIV -- the first known case of what's called "malignant transformation," U.S ...

The parasite had attached to the 38-year-old man's small intestine and had likely been inside him for at least two years before doctors diagnosed the infection as beef tapeworm of the species ...

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