Dr. Kenny Banh of Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California, has seen his fair share of remarkable things in ...

Pork can carry taenia solium larvae, a parasitic tapeworm. After eating infected pork, the larvae get into body tissues where ...

Symptoms include fever, myalgia, headache and malaise ... Rodentolepsis: The tapeworm Rodentolepsis nana infects rats, mice and hamsters. Humans can be infected by ingestion of tapeworm eggs resulting ...

Tapeworms are a group of parasites that depend on humans for growth and cause intestinal infection in them. Tapeworm symptoms and signs include stomach pain, loss of appetite, weight loss.

Calcified brain scars can contribute to symptoms including seizures ... Intestinal infection by an adult tapeworm is called taeniasis. In humans, although the tapeworm can cause an upset stomach ...

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 ... hookworms to reduce his symptoms. Infested by leeches.

Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from ... their bodies because it generally causes no symptoms,” Kuramochi said. Born in 1955, Kuramochi ...