Scientists have discovered that starving and then refeeding worms can reveal surprising secrets about aging. When a specific ...

A second man from Albany, N.Y., aged 66, who received the donor’s other kidney also developed a parasitic infection, the ...

In a disturbing case of medical misdiagnosis, an 18-year-old boy was treated for tuberculosis (TB) for six months before ...

“We as humans become infected by inadvertently taking the place of the rodents, so somehow coming into contact and consuming those eggs that are passed in the feces,” Waldner said.

Humans crash this vile cycle by accidentally eating the eggs excreted by infected foxes or other primary hosts. This generally happens by a delightful "hand-to-mouth" transfer or contamination of ...

It occurs when infectious eggs, shed in the feces of a human tapeworm carrier, are ingested. The condition often spreads through faecal contamination, typically due to improper handwashing or ...

The tapeworm taenia solium enters the human body by ingesting the parasite’s larval cysts. These eggs can then develop into adult tapeworms in a human’s gut, usually around 5 to 12 weeks.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a court in 2012 that doctors found a parasite in his brain. There's a one-in-eight chance you might have something similar. I've had one, too.

Tapeworm larvae can survive outside of their human hosts. If pigs graze on vegetation that is contaminated with human feces containing the eggs or larvae (known as cysticerci), these are then ...

People often develop the nauseating disease by consuming food or water contaminated with tapeworm eggs, which can pass through human poop and spread if hands aren’t washed, the Centers for ...

This brings up the second way of that humans can insert themselves into this pig-tapeworm circle of life: by consuming something contaminated with feces containing these eggs or proglottids.

A 52-year-old man suffering from severe migraines was found to have tapeworm larvae attached to his brain, which researchers linked to his consumption of lightly cooked bacon.