Parasitic infections or worms can affect anyone, regardless of age or location. While often associated with unsanitary ...

Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain, are ...

They purportedly depict a Chinese woman's legs teeming with parasites that took up residence in her body after a decade of ...

Cysticercosis is caused by the larvae of the parasite Taenia solium, or pork tapeworm (stock photo ... eggs that are passed in the faeces of a human with a tapeworm," says the CDC.

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