A rare illness in Belgium that affected nine people was likely spread after the initial patient ate pork while abroad several years earlier. Human cysticercosis results from ingesting Taenia solium ...

A 38-year-old man in Shiyan, China had been suffering issues with pain in his stomach, nausea, and an iron deficiency, and when he couldn’t take it anymore, he had visited a hospital to see what was ...

A man from China who loved to eat raw beef has spent two years being examined by different doctors because of stomach pains. The doctors treated him for chronic anemia and stomachache but the ...

A livestock feed supplement contaminated with human faeces is being blamed for an outbreak of parasite infection in a cattle feedlot in northwest NSW. In a study reported for the first-time in the ...

Squeamish readers be warned: The South China Morning Post reports a Chinese man was recently found to have a 20-foot tapeworm living inside his intestines. According to Live Science, the 38-year-old ...

Yikes. Scientific American reports that tapeworms may be on the rise in urban areas–including Chicago, where a man filed suit last year against Shaw’s Crab House for allegedly serving him undercooked ...

Unfortunately, tapeworms have made a reappearance in our culture. Many years ago, tapeworms were very common throughout the world. In the last 50 years, instances of tapeworms in the United States ...

Tapeworms are parasites that live in the bodies of their hosts including humans. A 38-year-old man from China was one such host -- recently having a 20-foot-long version of the parasite removed from ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: How is tapeworm infection contracted and treated? Is it very common today? ANSWER: Tapeworms are flat, ribbonlike parasites that can live in human gastrointestinal tracts. Worldwide, ...