After months of a mysterious illness, NHL prospect Carson Meyer discovered a 25-inch tapeworm coming out of his body. Meyer had spent nearly a year feeling constantly fatigued and lacking an ...

Don't Miss: Today’s deals: 20% off gift cards on Amazon, $849 M4 MacBook Air, $500 off Omni S1 Pro, more The researchers first had to determine what specific parts of a tapeworm’s body are ...

Tapeworms are flat, segmented worms that live in the intestines of some animals. Animals can become infected with these parasites when grazing in pastures or drinking contaminated water.

Adult tapeworms survive by attaching themselves to their host’s gut and siphoning off nutrients from our body. Many, though not all, species of tapeworms accomplish this via a circular set of ...

Pork can carry taenia solium larvae, a parasitic tapeworm. After eating infected pork, the larvae get into body tissues where they form cysts—a condition called cysticercosis. The larvae can ...

A horrifying image of calcified parasites embedded in the soft tissue of a human body has gone viral after Sam Ghali, an emergency room doctor, shared the seriously disturbing scan on X.

Better well done than wormy! A stomach-turning image of a parasite infection embedded in the muscle of a human body shows the dangers a person can face if they consume undercooked pork. Emergency ...

A Fresno man and avid lover of sushi — more specifically, salmon sashimi — pulled a 5 1/2 foot-long tapeworm out his own body. It had been growing inside of him for some time. Dr. Kenny Banh ...

By "giant" he means five-and-a-half feet long. The tapeworm had a flat, skinny body, tan in color, with narrow, dark brown lines down its back and "a big, flat head." Tapeworms are a type of ...

These proglottids are expelled from the body in feces but are instantly infectious. Anthelmintic drugs, including praziquantel and niclosamide, either kill or paralyze the tapeworm, making it ...