Some tapeworm species can grow up to 30 feet long and thrive in the host’s gut for decades. Juan Gärtner – stock.adobe.com. The headaches soon returned alongside a scary new symptom.

Prevention. In most cases, you can prevent tapeworms with a few simple steps: Because fleas are the key cause, control them both on your dog and in your home and yard. Talk to your vet about flea ...

Tapeworms are intestinal parasites that are shaped similarly to a tape measure. Their eggs typically enter a human host from animals through food, particularly raw or undercooked meat. Tapeworm ...

In her case, the rumor about tapeworm diet pills collided with her real-life condition, resulting in her being misidentified as someone who used such a product.

A man has died after a tapeworm living inside him deposited cancerous cells throughout his body. The Colombian man had HIV, which weakened his immune system and is thought to have allowed the ...

A fish tapeworm infection, or diphyllobothriasis, occurs when a person eats raw or undercooked fish that's contaminated with the parasite Diphyllobothrium latum. Find out more about it here.

But baby pork tapeworms are exactly what doctors found in a 52-year-old man’s brain after he went to a clinic complaining that his migraine headaches had been getting more frequent and severe ...

Meet the fox tapeworm The new study is a retrospective one, in which a group of doctors in Switzerland examined medical records of 334 patients who developed the disease alveolar echinococcosis ...