In April of this year, he was admitted to the hospital for treatment of a life-threatening tapeworm that was found in his brain. The tapeworm had been causing severe migraines and was thought to ...

A 41-year-old man from Hanoi, suffering from years of seizures and chronic headaches, recently discovered that a tapeworm had ...

The surgeons removed it from Palma’s brain and placed it under a microscope. They sliced into it and found a baby tapeworm. “Of course I was grossed out,” said 42-year-old Palma on Thursday.

Pig brain naturally infected with Taenia solium five days after praziquantel treatment and infused Evans blue prior to necropsy. The black arrows point to blue cysts with increased vascular ...

Moving forward, the team plans to zoom in on T. solium by examining the effects of the parasite at different life stages on human brain slices and the interplay between the parasite and the ...

The parasite infested his brain, putting him into a coma for more than a year and leaving him paralysed. He died in 2018 at the age of 29. People have got infected by eating raw or undercooked ...

One potential cause of epilepsy is consuming undercooked pork from pigs infected with the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) ...

NHL prospect Carson Meyer was "absolutely freaking out" after a 25-inch tapeworm came out of his body Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to ...