It is likely that the tapeworm was acquired orally. Suspicion fell on cherry-salmon sashimi that the man had consumed three months earlier. The food would have contained a tiny larval form of the ...

Once inside your body, tapeworms can silently live in the intestines, absorbing nutrients from foods you eat. Tapeworm ...

For example, if the person who has the adult tapeworm gets the eggs on his or her hands and then prepares another person’s food, that other person can unknowingly eat the eggs. The eggs then ...

Tapeworm eggs are spread "through food, water, or surfaces contaminated with faeces". "Humans swallow the eggs when they eat contaminated food or put contaminated fingers in their mouth".

Holly is a graduate medical biochemist with an enthusiasm for making science interesting, fun and accessible. We know that tapeworms have been upsetting stomachs for at least 99 million years ...

Tapeworms don't just cause discomfort; they drain their host of vital nutrients, leaving them weaker by the day. In Warren Buffett's eyes, that's exactly what rising health care costs are doing to ...