The tapeworm taenia solium enters the human body by ingesting the parasite’s larval cysts. These eggs can then develop into adult tapeworms in a human’s gut, usually around 5 to 12 weeks ...

His mouth is a little round hole that looks as if a big fat worm lived down there—and one does. Beneath the comic mask is a tragic figure: Capannelle has a tapeworm and no teeth.

An eight-year-old girl from Taiwan had to have an 8’6” (2.6 metre) long tapeworm removed from her body after eating contaminated sashimi. It was reportedly alive and had been inside her for a ...