Cue the ew. A horrifying image of calcified parasites embedded in the soft tissue of a human body has gone viral after Sam ...

The patient’s condition, identified as cysticercosis, was caused by larval cysts of taenia solium (pork tapeworm) after ...

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...

A recent X-ray scan showcasing calcified parasites embedded throughout a patient's body has gone viral, highlighting the ...

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

The human brain, the nervous system of a worm, and a computer chip have striking similarities, scientists from the U.S., the U.K., and Germany have discovered. The human brain, the nervous system ...

But at that time, a pregnant female Guinea worm—which can measure up to three feet in length—begins to break through the human’s skin and emerge to expel her larvae into a body of water.

In the United States, the most well-known skin-penetrating parasitic worm, called a nematode, is the hookworm. But globally, ...