A tapeworm infection benefits ant workers by extending their lives, allowing ordinary workers to survive as long as their queen does. Susanne Foitzik at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany ...

A VACCINE for pigs could help save the 50,000 people a year in poor countries killed by a gruesome parasite. Initial trials suggest it is nearly 100 per cent effective. The vaccine, developed by a ...

A tapeworm is essentially a very long, parasitic towel with a grappling hook for a head. It attaches itself to the internal organs of its host with its fiendish head spines, and it absorbs nutrients ...

Anna Phillips holds a colorized electron microscope image of a species of tapeworm taken from a cow-nosed ray (“Rhinoptera bonasus”), a marine animal. Produced by Kiersten Jensen at the University of ...

As monsoon rains last in Mumbai, doctors have issued an advisory about the growing risk of tapeworm infections, specifically neurocysticercosis, which is potentially life-threatening as it involves ...