"People get cysticercosis when they swallow T.solium eggs that are passed in the faeces of a human with a tapeworm," says the CDC. Tapeworm eggs are spread "through food, water, or surfaces ...

Several types of tapeworms can infect humans. The four main tapeworm types ... Tapeworms enter the body when someone ingests ...

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

A 25-year-old woman's headaches, which were so intense they caused her vision problems, turned out to be from tapeworm eggs in her brain, doctors found. According to the case report, published ...

Scientists in the Czech Republic have described the first domestic case of infection with a parasite. Diphyllobothriasis (dibothriocephalosis) is caused by the human broad tapeworm ...