A rare illness in Belgium that affected nine people was likely spread after the initial patient ate pork while abroad several years earlier. Human ...

By Sarah Brown In Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, Paul Raad crouched in the undergrowth, scanning ...

Ingesting the eggs leads to tapeworm larvae growing in many different human tissues, particularly brain and muscle. This leads to seizures and more. Undercooked pork can contain tapeworm larvae, ...

“Don’t wait for the signs of intestinal worm infection to present themselves. According to the World Health Organization, ...

An in vitro fertilization embryologist works on a petri dish at a fertility clinic in London. (Sang Tan/AP) The fertility industry is harvesting more and more eggs from women to use in IVF ...

Proper environmental hygiene includes cleaning up poop immediately, treating their home for fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes, and ...

Cats excrete a lot of tapeworm eggs in their waste. Sometimes, a cat’s excrement will have little white ... It lowers the risk of health problems, protects human health, controls fleas and ticks, and ...

A new tablet combining albendazole and ivermectin is safe and more effective than albendazole alone in treating Trichuris ...

Research led by Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University in China has performed a metadata investigation into the presence of microplastics in humans ... chicken or the egg" problem with ...

Tapeworm eggs found in brain of man who ate undercooked bacon A man from the US was found ... Cysticercosis is a condition caused by the the larval form of a pork tapeworm which use pigs as a host.