As a result, the patient underwent a CT scan which revealed the disturbing truth: his brain was infected with tapeworm cysts. And whilst this might sound hideous in itself, there is another twist ...

A man was left in horror after an X-ray revealed his body was riddled with tapeworm eggs. The image shows hundreds of 'rice grain' nodules that turned out to be cysts caused by the parasitic ...

Pork can contain larval cysts of the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium which can cause an infection if eaten. These cysts can then develop into an adult tapeworm in the intestines which produce eggs ...

The tapeworm eggs are spread to pigs when they ingest the food contaminated with human fecal material. In the pig, the eggs hatch into larvae and form cysts, and people can get the tapeworm by ...

Stomach-churning X-ray pictures show a man left bursting with tapeworm eggs after he made a grave kitchen mistake that allowed the parasites to take root. Sam Ghali, an Assistant Professor in ...

Echinococcus multilocularis infection is becoming more prevalent in North American wild and domestic canid species ...

The black arrows point to blue cysts with increased vascular permeability in surrounding tissues; a clear cyst with unaltered vascular permeability in surrounding tissues is indicated with a white ...

He collects some infected beef in Kenya, finds the tapeworm cysts and infects himself. Footage of the cysts inside him is seen, followed ten weeks later by footage of the one metre long adult worms.

The tapeworm E.granulosus primarily completes its lifecycle between dogs and sheep, with the intermediate stage in sheep causing hydatid cysts. Humans exposed to tapeworm eggs in dog feces can ...

The tapeworm E.granulosus primarily completes its lifecycle between dogs and sheep, with the intermediate stage in sheep causing hydatid cysts. Humans exposed to tapeworm eggs in dog faeces can ...