Today we have modern antiparasitic drugs. But 130 years ago, our forebears had nothing but quack cures and prayers to drive ...

There are lots of uses for a microscope, but using them to get a closer look at small creatures such as insects can be truly startling especially for those that don't seem all that strange in ...

A parasite never before seen in humans has been found burrowing in the internal organs of two moose hunters. The hunters, both from New Hampshire, were infected with the rare tapeworm after butchering ...

A man hospitalized with mysterious seizures and an "altered mental status" had tapeworms living in his brain for decades, according to researchers. In a case study published last week in The New ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- A British man kept having headache after headache, and doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. When they finally conducted an MRI, doctors discovered something ...

Doctors discovered tapeworm eggs in the brain of a Florida man who liked to eat “undercooked pork” Getty; American Journal of Case Reports Doctors discovered tapeworm eggs in the brain of a Florida ...

Parasitologists in China have discovered one of the world’s earliest tapeworm fossils, and might have their hands on the only fossilized tapeworm remains that aren’t traces from another animal. The ...

A man suffering from severe migraines, obesity and complicated type-2 diabetes was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, which was the result of eating partially cooked bacon, ...

A man in the U.S. developed a parasitic infection in his brain after regularly consuming undercooked bacon, according to a case study published March 7 in the American Journal of Case Reports. The ...