A dangerous parasite that can spread to humans has been spotted in Washington, according to a Washington State University ...

Doctors at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens discovered a New York mother who endured more than a decade of seizures was suffering from an infestation of tapeworm larvae in her brain. See more ...

Tapeworms have been making headlines ever since an investigation by The New York Times turned up a deposition Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave in 2012. In it, the independent candidate running for president ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brittany - stock.adobe.com A parasite commonly carried by foxes and coyotes appears to have established itself in the Pacific ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- A British man kept having headache after headache, and doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. When they finally conducted an MRI, doctors discovered something ...

A parasitic tapeworm causing echinococcosis has been detected for the first time in West Coast wildlife, found in 37 of 100 coyotes near Puget Sound.

Infections of the human nervous system with larval stages of the pork tapeworm are the most common cause of epileptic seizures in Africa. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have ...

A parasite commonly carried by foxes and coyotes appears to have established itself in the Pacific Northwest, according to Washington State University. The parasite, Echinococcus multilocularis, is ...