Today we have modern antiparasitic drugs. But 130 years ago, our forebears had nothing but quack cures and prayers to drive ...

April 13 -- An Arizona woman says she's feeling good, a little more than a week after undergoing six hours of surgery to remove a worm that had lodged in her brain. Dawn Becerra and her doctors ...

A Florida man with worsening migraines was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, according to a report published this month in the American Journal of Case Reports. Doctors believe ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven’t accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

Experts believe the worm found in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was Taenia solium, or a pork tapeworm larva. The worm’s larval cysts could cause a parasitic infection in the brain called neurocysticercosis, ...

And other questions about parasites. By Dana G. Smith and Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s disclosure that a doctor apparently found a dead worm in his brain has sparked questions about what brain ...

It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites. The partial ...