Parasite, zombie, leech—these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms ...

The bird tapeworm Schistocephalus solidus, like many parasites, has a complicated life cycle. As its name suggests, it infects birds, and particularly those that live by water.

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In so doing, it appears, they stepped into the life cycle of Taenia tapeworms. Tapeworms that might have ended up in the gut of a hyena or a lion ended up in the gut of our ancestors instead.

When the 35-year-old woman arrived at a hospital in France, she told doctors it felt like electric shocks were running down her legs.

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"This new research helps answer many questions about tapeworm prevalence in the western United States," said Bobby Cowles, DMV, MS, MBA, of Pfizer Animal Health. "Understanding the life cycle of ...

The parasites survive in the hemolymph, the body fluid of insects. Their complex life cycle is completed once they have been ingested by a woodpecker that feeds on the ants.

Four years after his headaches were diagnosed as tuberculosis, doctors found a tapeworm in a patient’s brain.

Most tapeworms have an obligate parasitic life cycle involving two or three hosts. They have no mouth or digestive tract, and absorb nutrients directly from the intestines of their hosts.

Consider Schistocephalus solidus. Like many tapeworms, this one has a complicated life cycle. It reproduces in the guts of waterbirds, which excrete its eggs in their droppings.