A woman who suffered months of unexplained illness was shocked to discover the cause-a fish tapeworm inside her. Alexa Kilbride from New York, battled nausea, extreme weight loss, and panic attacks, ...

Caryophyllidean tapeworms represent one of the earliest diverging groups of eucestodes and are distinguished by their monozoic, non-segmented body plan. These parasites predominantly infect freshwater ...

The huge worm had to be folded 18 times just to fit into a picture taken by shocked medics at Singapore General Hospital's Department of Microbiology The 2.8m-long tapeworm in an image taken by the ...

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 Dibothriocephalus ...

Lugging around a tapeworm that’s one-third your body weight can be a real drag. So threespine stickleback fish evolved resistance to tapeworms — but resistance has costs of its own, a team of ...

Scientists in Europe have updated the knowledge around parasites in fish based on available surveillance data. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientific opinion also evaluated methods for ...

Brown bears can be infected with multiple tapeworms at once. Brown bears get infected with tapeworms thanks to eating salmon. Tapeworms can grow up to 30 feet long in the brown bear’s intestines. Wild ...

Parasitic infections in salmonid fish can increase or decrease their vulnerability to angling, depending on their body condition. Angling, a type of fishing, is a popular pastime across the world, and ...