A tapeworm cannot live freely on its own. It survives within the gut of animals, including humans. Humans can also contract tapeworms if they have contact with animal feces or contaminated water.

Doctors in India removed a pork tapeworm spanning nearly 2 meters from a man's gut, according to a new brief report of the man's case in the New England Journal of Medicine.

When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm ...

Intestinal infection by an adult tapeworm is called taeniasis. In humans, although the tapeworm can cause an upset stomach, it can also be asymptomatic—apart from rice grain-sized eggs in the feces.

Tapeworm in fox poop that will slowly destroy your organs is on the rise The worm indefinitely proliferates into cystic masses in organs, mimicking cancer.

Kennedy had been suffering from cognitive difficulties. Doctors initially suspected that he had a brain tumour, but it turned out to be a parasite infection – specifically, a pork tapeworm larva ...

A Florida man with worsening migraines was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, according to a report published this month in the American Journal of Case Reports. Doctors believe ...

Neurocysticercosis (caused by infection with the tapewormTaenia solium) is a major cause of acquired seizures and epilepsy worldwide. Nash and Garcia describe the different types of ...

The Chinese man had seen his doctor about stomach ache and itchy skin. Scans showed his entire body had been infected with tapeworm from eating raw fish.

Dr Sam Ghali warned people against easting undercooked pork as he share the CT scan image of a person with cysticercosis.

WATERLOO REGION—Dogs and humans can be infected by a potentially deadly tapeworm that University of Guelph researchers say is now in Southern Ontario. The tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis ...