Always check with your healthcare provider to confirm the suitability of any treatment option discussed here. Tapeworms are a group of parasites that depend on humans for growth and cause ...

In April of this year, he was admitted to the hospital for treatment ... particular tapeworm was Taenia solium, which is a ...

X-ray images reveal the disturbing result of a culinary blunder that led to a man becoming infested with tapeworm eggs. Sam Ghali, an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of ...

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Dr Ghali said that the disease, which is termed cysticercosis, is due to the presence of larval cysts of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The parasite infects humans through eating raw or undercooked ...

And researchers sequenced the centimeter-long worm upon its extraction to find that it had a genome 10 times larger than any other tapeworm sequenced—a fact that may account for Spirometra ...