“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of ...

What is the tapeworm diet, is 'dangerous' fad diet making a comeback and here's why you should never try it. By Sarah McCann. Health writer. Comment. Published 7th Feb 2025, 12:24 BST.

I beg to remark that I both figured and described this supplementary sucker-like structure in the first edition of my small work on “Tapeworms,” published in 1866 (p. 33 et seq.).

Some tapeworm species can grow up to 30 feet long and thrive in the host’s gut for decades. Juan Gärtner – stock.adobe.com. The headaches soon returned alongside a scary new symptom.

If a tapeworm is in your intestine and not causing any trouble, you probably won’t know it’s there. When people do discover the infection, it’s usually because they see segments of the worm in their ...

Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s health is in the spotlight again – this time relating to a neurological issue. In a 2012 deposition recently reviewed by the New ...

Because part of the tapeworm’s life cycle requires that individuals consume raw or undercooked pork and that [this meat is] allowed to be infected, we generally don’t see tapeworm transmission ...

Researchers have recently discovered an endoparasitic tapeworm fossil from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber that is approximately 100 million years old. The discovery was made by researchers from the ...

Scientists discover a 100-million-year-old tapeworm fossil in Myanmar amber, ... folded structure on the inside which stretches along its length, reaching towards its front end.

An “exceptional” 99-million-year-old tentacle trapped in amber is the first partial body fossil of a tapeworm ever discovered, suggesting the parasites have been wreaking havoc on intestines ...