A 52-year-old man in Florida has been discharged from the hospital after receiving treatment for a life-threatening tapeworm ...

A Florida man seeking outpatient treatment for a persistent and severe headache soon found himself in the hospital’s ...

Health officials in a Belgian city have identified the source of pork tapeworm infections at a school. Department Zorg said ...

Shocking pictures reveal how a 52-year-old Florida man who went to the doctor for a lingering cough was infected with dozens ...

Doctors at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens discovered a New York mother who endured more than a decade of seizures was suffering from an infestation of tapeworm larvae in her brain.

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.

Echinococcus granulosus, a type of tapeworm, is a harmful parasite that affects 1 million people worldwide. The parasite can grow slowly in people for years to form thick-walled cysts in vital ...

Parasitic tapeworm larvae were found in the man’s brain following weeks of worsening migraines, according to a report published last week in the American Journal of Case Reports. The 52-year-old ...

This was the case for Taenia solium, or pig tapeworm which found itself in an unlikely place. A middle-aged man from Florida with a history of migraines went to the doctor as his headaches were ...

A 52-year-old Florida man presented to hospital with complaints that his usual migraines had worsened over the past four ...

The gross-out factor is strong. Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from a hapless diner’s intestine. Toshiaki Kuramochi, the museum director ...