An extraordinary discovery was made by the Parasitology team of the Medical Research Institute (MRI) when they found a ...

A tapeworm measuring approximately 70 cm long has been discovered in the digestive tract of a 10-year-old boy from the ...

The largest tapeworm ever recorded wasn't found in a human, however, and was in fact a giant 131-foot Tetragonoporus calyptocephalus — a type of tapeworm that lives deep inside the intestines of ...

We know that tapeworms have been upsetting stomachs for ... It marked the first time we’ve found the partial body of one of these parasites in fossil form – previously, all we had was some ...

If meat or fish have larvae cysts and are undercooked or raw, the cysts can travel to the human intestine, where they can mature into adult tapeworms. An adult tapeworm can: live as long as 25 ...

It looks like tapeworms ... growing long segmented bodies, can vary in size from less than 0.039 inches to a whopping 98 feet long. While many infections result in no symptoms, in human hosts ...

Tapeworms are flat, segmented worms that live in the intestines of some animals. Animals can become infected with these parasites when grazing in pastures or drinking contaminated water.

Commonly known as ‘Monkey tapeworm’ the parasitic worm which rarely infects humans was found in a 10-year-old boy in Kurunegala, and is the longest ... that this type of human infection ...