A 26-year-old man was cured of an inexplainable epileptic fits after a 10cm-long tapeworm was removed from his brain. According to the South China Morning Post, doctors discovered a live tapeworm ...

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Tapeworm infections were common in the late 19th century due to a lack of food safety laws and meat inspections. Historical accounts from Muncie detail tapeworms growing to dozens of feet long inside ...

It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites. The partial ...

He told an emergency room physician he had a liking for raw fish — specifically, salmon sashimi. It's what the 30-year-old man, from Fresno, Calif., suspected had landed him in the bathroom with ...

A habit of eating undercooked bacon and poor hygiene lead to a nasty discovery. A Florida man suffering from persistent migraines was found to have festering tapeworm eggs in his brain, according to a ...

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Lenine’s symptoms began in the spring of 2016, with severe headaches that seemed to bloom each night when he lay down to sleep, piercing his temples and leaving him squinting in bright lights the next ...

Tapeworms have been making headlines ever since an investigation by The New York Times turned up a deposition Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave in 2012. In it, the independent candidate running for president ...

Scanning electron micrograph of the anterior attachment structure of the tapeworm species Litobothrium nickoli, collected from the gut of a pelagic thresher shark from Taiwan KIRSTEN JENSEN / KANSAS ...