Eating raw pork doesn't sound like a good idea, and one Florida man just proved that once and for all. After eating undercooked pork over the holidays, Sam Cordero had to have a parasite (a pork ...

(CNN) — Once you consume them, they can move throughout your body — your eyes, your tissues and most commonly your brain. They leave doctors puzzled in their wake as they migrate and settle to feed on ...

While cabbage is a winter staple, experts warn of potential tapeworm contamination due to unhygienic farming practices like ...

A man was hospitalized with worsening migraines only to find out they were caused by parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain — and researchers believe he was infected by eating undercooked bacon. The ...

A Florida man seeking treatment for his chronic, worsening migraines discovered that he had worm eggs in his brain, which was causing his pain. The unidentified man, 52, went to the hospital ...

Today we have modern antiparasitic drugs. But 130 years ago, our forebears had nothing but quack cures and prayers to drive ...

Doctors discovered that two toddlers in China with unexplained bruising on their limbs were actually suffering from a parasite infection typically caused by consuming undercooked pork. The 3-year-old ...

A rare illness in Belgium that affected nine people was likely spread after the initial patient ate pork while abroad several years earlier. Human cysticercosis results from ingesting Taenia solium ...

A meal of undercooked pork nearly cost one Florida man his vision after he contracted a brain-eating parasitic tapeworm that traveled to his eye. Sam Cordero blamed his Christmas ham feast for the ...

An 8-year-old girl in India was plagued by seizures and pounding headaches until a CT scan revealed more than 100 tapeworm eggs had flooded her brain. Neurologists discovered the eggs, which likely ...

Health officials in a Belgian city have identified the source of pork tapeworm infections at a school. Department Zorg said that after an extensive search, the person behind the infections at Het ...