A WOMAN who picked up a tapeworm during her travels in India left doctors stumped when she later battled a decade of seizures ...

The monsoon season provides a break from the scorching summer, but it also increases the risk of infections. Waterlogging, ...

Doctors suspected metastatic brain cancer in a 60-year-old man, but scans revealed pork tapeworm larvae causing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was most likely describing neurocysticercosis, a tapeworm brain infection that can cause ...

They originally believed their patient had brain cancer, only to later discover he actually had worms inside his head. The doctors detailed their macabre case over the weekend in the journal The ...

A woman who developed 38 brain parasites after contracting a tapeworm on a trip to India battled a decade of seizures, ...

When cysticerci enter a person’s central nervous system, it’s a disease called neurocysticercosis (NCC), which is the diagnosis the doctors in Spain gave the man. Testing after his MRI revealed his ...

A UK woman said she developed neurocysticercosis after a tapeworm infection, leaving 38 brain parasites that caused seizures, ...

Tapeworms have been making headlines ever since an investigation by The New York Times turned up a deposition Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave in 2012. In it, the independent candidate running for president ...

Lowri avoided meat during the trip to avoid food poisoning. However, she unknowingly ate pork that contained microscopic ...

A man suffering from severe migraines, obesity and complicated type-2 diabetes was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, which was the result of eating partially cooked bacon, ...