In 2012, a Japanese man with a fondness for chilled salmon came down with what physicians described as a 'watery” bout of gastrointestinal distress. This was uncomfortable enough, but his illness took ...

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 ...

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 ...

They thrive everywhere from bustling cities to remote rainforests — even in our own backyards. Pervasive and unapologetic mooches, parasites rely on other organisms for their survival. How parasites ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (CNN) – If you eat raw or under cooked fish, you risk developing an infection from parasites. One of the most gruesome is tapeworm, a species of digestive tract-invading parasites ...

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 ...

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 ...