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 ...

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.

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The tapeworm taenia solium enters the human body by ingesting the parasite’s larval cysts. These eggs can then develop into adult tapeworms in a human’s gut, usually around 5 to 12 weeks.

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 ...

Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s health is in the spotlight again – this time relating to a neurological issue. In a 2012 deposition recently reviewed by the New ...

A Fresno, Calif., man pulled a 5-and-a-half-foot long tapeworm from his body. His daily sushi habit may be the culprit. On the "This Won't Hurt A Bit" podcast, Dr. Kenny Banh, an emergency ...

A Chinese woman has had an 8-foot-long tapeworm removed from her stomach after she ate an undercooked holiday meal. Doctors discovered the tapeworm after she complained of feeling unwell. The woman… ...

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 appetite ...