In April of this year, he was admitted to the hospital for treatment of a life-threatening tapeworm that was found in his brain. The tapeworm had been causing severe migraines and was thought to ...

After months of a mysterious illness, NHL prospect Carson Meyer discovered a 25-inch tapeworm coming out of his body. Meyer had spent nearly a year feeling constantly fatigued and lacking an ...

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 ...

Intestinal infection by an adult tapeworm is called taeniasis. In humans, although the tapeworm can cause an upset stomach, it can also be asymptomatic – apart from rice grain-sized eggs in the ...

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.