What to know about tapeworms, the parasites that comes from eating raw or undercooked foods Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to ...

After eight years spent scouring the vertebrate bowels of the Earth, Janine Caira has published the world's most comprehensive census of the 4,810 known species of tapeworm.

Tapeworms must be treated because they do not go away on their own. They reproduce with eggs and grow in the human intestine. Some tapeworms grow to be 25 feet long inside their hosts.

If you’ve been online at all these past few weeks, you probably heard about Luis Ortiz, a 26-year-old man in California who had a “still wiggling” tapeworm pulled from his brain—shudder.

If tapeworms still sound appetizing to you, we want to refer you to a few recent stories about what can happen when they get into your brain.

Tapeworms might not be the cutest or cuddliest of creatures cooked up by Mother Nature, but what they lack in charm, they more than make up for with a few very special abilities.

Tapeworms and other parasites can have dangerous and deadly health implications for humans. Toxoplasmosis infects more than a million people each year in the U.S. CNN — ...

Pork tapeworms – Cysticercosis. You should be far more worried about the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, as it is a leading cause of seizures, ...

The Japanese broad tapeworm is usually only found in fish from Asia's Pacific coasts, but a study found that wild salmon netted in Alaska were also plagued by the parasite.

Doctors found tapeworms in his brain, according to a new medical report. A construction worker in China suffered from headaches and seizures after eating pork and mutton from a spicy hot pot meal.

A 46-year-old Chinese man who was hospitalized for epilepsy had hundreds of tapeworms in his brain — likely caused by eating undercooked pork. Doctors at the First Affiliated Hospital of College ...