The Chinese woman is believed to have become infected after eating undercooked beef while travelling in south-east Asia A woman had this 8ft-long (2.5-metre) tapeworm removed from her stomach after ...

It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites. The partial ...

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 ...

A 52-year-old Florida man thought to be suffering from severe migraines was actually battling a bizarre tapeworm infestation in his brain — caused by eating undercooked bacon. The unnamed patient, ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven’t accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

“Our results show that amber can preserve the internal structure of helminths such as tapeworms on geologic time scales,” Wang told Phys.org. It “highlights the importance of amber research in ...

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...

We have all found ourselves in a place we would rather not be, a school reunion, the never-ending work meeting or a distant relative’s wedding reception. In such situations, it is often a good option ...

There are three main types of winter worms that horse owners need to consider at this time of year: encysted small redworm, tapeworm, and bots. Here, vet Sue Taylor MRCVS discusses the three main ...