Tapeworms are parasites that survive within another organism, known as the host. They grow after the host ingests the eggs of the tapeworm. Drinking contaminated water and eating contaminated food ...

Tapeworms can live outside for months, waiting for a host to come along. You’re most at risk if you work around livestock or travel to a country that lacks clean drinking water and modern sewage ...

A tapeworm is a parasite in contaminated food and water. Most people have mild or even no symptoms. Symptoms might include nausea and weight loss.

Tapeworms are parasitic worms that can enter your body through contaminated food or water sources and can feed off your body's nutrients. It can even lay eggs and reach your brain.

Parasites are organisms that live in and feed off a living host. ... You can get a tapeworm, which is a type of flatworm, by drinking water contaminated with tapeworm eggs or larvae.

A fish tapeworm infection, or diphyllobothriasis, occurs when a person eats raw or undercooked fish that's contaminated with the parasite Diphyllobothrium latum. Find out more about it here.

It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites. The partial ...

And other questions about parasites. By Dana G. Smith and Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s disclosure that a doctor apparently found a dead worm in his brain has sparked questions about what ...