Once inside your body, tapeworms can silently ... where people eat raw or undercooked meat. Several types of tapeworms can ...

It’s the medical innovation that no one asked for. Scientists have just created a synthetic version of a tapeworm’s tiny hook-filled head—a perhaps unnerving invention that might actually ...

"People get cysticercosis when they swallow T.solium eggs that are passed in the faeces of a human with a tapeworm," says the CDC. Tapeworm eggs are spread "through food, water, or surfaces ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley visits Kenya to see how the beef tapeworm needs to infect both beef cattle and humans to complete ... Footage of the cysts inside him is seen, followed ten ...

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 ...