I ate something on a trip to Brazil and now I’ve been having terrible stomach issues. I’ve read about people who have had tapeworms and I don’t know if I have one. How do you know if you have a ...

If you’ve been online at all these past few weeks, you probably heard about Luis Ortiz, a 26-year-old man in California who had a “still wiggling” tapeworm pulled from his brain—shudder. Parasites in ...

History:Patients sometimes give history of passing worms or segments of worms in the stool. Stool test:Examination of proglottids passed in the stool of the patient reveals tapeworm infections. The ...

The adult tapeworms are large, segmented and as the name suggests are flat worms. Egg bearing segments of the worm called Proglottids are excreted in the human feces. If the excreted matter is not ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: How is tapeworm infection contracted and treated? Is it very common today? ANSWER: Tapeworms are flat, ribbonlike parasites that can live in human gastrointestinal tracts. Worldwide, ...

Scientists have identified the stem cells that allow tapeworms to regenerate and found that their location in proximity to the head is essential, according to a new study in eLife. These novel ...