Experts believe the worm found in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s brain is Taenia solium, or a pork tapeworm larva. This worm does not “eat” brain tissue.

Eating undercooked meat is never a good idea—it can give you a nasty case of food poisoning within 24 hours. And there are ...

These worms were identified as Thelazia gulosa, which have been implicated in causing human disease. Cordero’s eye worm was identified as Taenia Solium, more commonly called a pork tapeworm, and ...

The Taenia solium tapeworm that was found in the man's gut was nearly 2 meters long. ... The worm ended up measuring 188 centimeters (6.16 feet) long and was identified as Taenia solium, ...

R. Rodriguez-Hidalgo, D. Geysen, , S. Geerts, J. Brandt, Comparison of Conventional Techniques to Differentiate between Taenia solium and Taenia saginata and an Improved Polymerase Chain ...

Rachel Palma was told she most likely had a brain tumor. But during surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, doctors discovered it was a parasite.

Tapeworm eggs from the genus Taenia sp. were identified during the study of mummy remains dated to 2,286 ± 28 BP from the Chehrabad salt mine in northwestern Iran. The presence of tapeworm in this ...

Could a worm have eaten part of Kennedy’s brain? Experts told PolitiFact it’s unlikely. “It is certainly possible that the larval form of some parasites (including Taenia solium) can ...

Experts believe the worm found in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s brain is Taenia solium, or a pork tapeworm larva. This worm does not “eat” brain tissue.