A shocking image of calcified parasites lodged in human soft tissue has gone viral on X, shared by US doctor Sam Ghali, who described the scan as one of the “most insane X-rays” he has ever ...

Eating undercooked meat is never a good idea—it can give you a nasty case of food poisoning within 24 hours. And there are ...

Those that do, he explains, could be at risk of being infected by a tapeworm—a long, ribbon-like parasite that can live in human intestines. The video, which Dr Fugura does not reference a ...

Most people exposed to the parasites behind babesiosis don't get sick, but for others, the infection can be deadly.

The gross-out factor is strong. Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from a hapless diner’s intestine. Toshiaki Kuramochi, the museum director ...

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 ... Footage of the cysts inside him is seen, followed ten ...

Intestinal infection by an adult tapeworm is called taeniasis. In humans, although the tapeworm can cause an upset stomach, it can also be asymptomatic – apart from rice grain-sized eggs in the ...