PET owners have been warned of the deadly consequences of letting their pets lick them after a pregnant woman developed a ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm ...

Those involved in the study examined medical records of 334 patients who had alveolar echinococcosis were all ... the parasite doesn't fully mature into cysts, it invades and destroys tissue ...

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE ... AE is caused by tumor-like or cyst-like tapeworm larvae growing in the body. AE usually involves the liver but can spread to other organs of the body.

It was revealed to be a hydatid cyst - the result of a parasitic ... parasite that can cause deadly liver failure. Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a rare parasitic disease that spreads from ...