Tapeworm segments in human stool look like tiny grains of white rice that may be moving. Tapeworm may be seen in the toilet bowl or passing through the anus.

Tapeworms are intestinal parasites that are shaped similarly to a tape measure. Their eggs typically enter a human host from animals through food, particularly raw or undercooked meat. Tapeworm ...

If a tapeworm is in your intestine and not causing any trouble, you probably won’t know it’s there. When people do discover the infection, it’s usually because they see segments of the worm in their ...

The tapeworm taenia solium enters the human body by ingesting the parasite’s larval cysts. These eggs can then develop into adult tapeworms in a human’s gut, usually around 5 to 12 weeks ...

A human cannot be infected by consuming the moose meat directly. Exposure comes from interaction with dogs and the spread of the tapeworm eggs from the dog feces.

Toshiaki Kuramochi, the museum director, explains how its main showpiece was acquired. “In the 1980s, a man in his 40s discovered a white thread-like object in his feces,” Kuramochi said.

Tapeworm larvae can survive outside of their human hosts. If pigs graze on vegetation that is contaminated with human feces containing the eggs or larvae (known as cysticerci), these are then ...