Are you a die-hard bacon fan, with no breakfast, sandwich, or burger being truly complete without it? Then you may or may not want to continue reading. A recent medical case has revealed a potential ...

Tapeworm infections are rare in developed countries but still occur worldwide, often linked to eating contaminated or undercooked food. These intestinal parasites can cause nausea, weight loss, ...

A 52-year-old U.S. man with a “predilection for undercooked pork” showed up at a Florida hospital complaining of brutal migraines, after which doctors found his brain infested with parasitic tapeworm ...

Over the past month, "brain worm" anxiety has skyrocketed. In case you missed it, this happened after independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that a worm ate part of his brain ...

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 ...

Health officials in a Belgian city have identified the source of pork tapeworm infections at a school. Department Zorg said that after an extensive search, the person behind the infections at Het ...

Mumbai faces a rising threat of neurocysticercosis due to monsoon floods, warn doctors. The brain infection, caused by pork tapeworm larvae, spreads through contaminated food and water, risks ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi have designed a protein-based vaccine against Pork Tapeworm (T. solium). T. solium is responsible for both intestinal infections and the ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- A British man kept having headache after headache, and doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. When they finally conducted an MRI, doctors discovered something ...

A presidential candidate said doctors found a worm in his brain. That worm, he said, also consumed some of his brain tissue while it was in there. The New York Times reported May 8 that in a 2012 ...

A presidential candidate said doctors found a worm in his brain. That worm, he said, also consumed some of his brain tissue while it was in there. The New York Times reported May 8 that in a 2012 ...