It is possible that the infection was caused instead by Asian taenia (T. asiatica, T. saginata asiatica), which has been reported in aborigines in Taiwan, 2 with subsequent reports from other Asian ...

Experts have helped develop risk-based approaches to control two parasites in meat, requiring the re-evaluation of traditional practices and the assessment of regulatory and industry resources. The ...

A horrifying image of calcified parasites embedded in the soft tissue of a human body has gone viral after Sam Ghali, an emergency room doctor, shared the seriously disturbing scan on X. Describing ...

A 38-year-old man presented with worsening abdominal pain, vomiting, anorexia, generalized weakness, and weight loss that had begun 3 days earlier. He had a history of eating raw beef. Examination ...

The best way to find clues to how these tapeworms colonized us is to compare them to the 39 species of Taenia tapeworms that infect wild animals. Eric Hoberg, a parasitologist at the U.S. Department ...