AUSTIN, Texas -- Doctors say it's a miracle after an Austin man successfully had a tapeworm removed from his brain. KXAN reports doctors think the man contracted the parasite in Mexico more than a ...

Doctors have removed a huge 9ft tapeworm from a man in Singapore. The massive worm had to be folded 18 times so medical staff could take a picture of it. Even though he had a 2.8m (9ft 2in) tapeworm ...

Oral anti-parasitic and anti-inflammatory drugs are administered to treat adult tapeworm infections. The drugs of choice are Niclosamide (Niclocide), Praziquantel (Biltricide) and Albendazole. It is ...

A 25-year-old woman in Australia discovered she had tapeworm larvae in her brain after suffering from a headache that lasted for more than a week. The aches were caused by tapeworm larvae that had ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Humans are the only definitive host for the tapeworms Taenia saginata and Taenia solium. T. saginata, or the ...