Meet the fox tapeworm The new study is a retrospective one, in which a group of doctors in Switzerland examined medical records of 334 patients who developed the disease alveolar echinococcosis ...

Experts believe the worm found in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was Taenia solium, or a pork tapeworm larva. The worm’s larval cysts could cause a parasitic infection in the brain called ...

Globe Magazine A tapeworm may have changed the lives of Caesar, RFK Jr., and millions of others Inside the world-changing history of a tapeworm — and why it matters now.