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 ...

Humans acquire the infection by contact ... Due to symptoms ranging from rashes to seizures, brain parasites should be taken seriously. Treatment varies, depending on the parasite.

To get rid of a tapeworm you will have to seek medical care and take anti-parasitic medications, however treatments will vary depending on the severity of your infection and if it has become invasive.

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 ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley visits Kenya to see how the beef tapeworm needs to infect both beef cattle and humans to complete its life-cycle. He collects some infected beef in Kenya ...

The patient’s condition, identified as cysticercosis, was caused by larval cysts of taenia solium (pork tapeworm) after consuming raw or undercooked pork. A shocking image of calcified parasites ...