Neurologist Baibing Chen advises caution regarding certain foods that may harbor neurotoxins and brain parasites. Large tropical reef fish like barracuda can contain ciguatoxin, leading to ...

Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest ...

In a viral TikTok, a neurologist reveals three foods that he tries to avoid because they may harbor toxins and nasty bugs.

Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they're simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the ...

Parasite, zombie, leech—these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms ...

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 ...

A fish tapeworm infection can occur when a person eats raw or undercooked fish that’s contaminated with the parasite Diphyllobothrium latum. The parasite is more commonly known as the fish tapeworm.

The biggest parasite that infects humans can grow up to 30 feet long, but the deadliest one is small enough to lurk inside a mosquito.