After months of a mysterious illness, NHL prospect Carson Meyer discovered a 25-inch tapeworm coming out of his body. Meyer had spent nearly a year feeling constantly fatigued and lacking an ...

NHL prospect Carson Meyer was "absolutely freaking out" after a 25-inch tapeworm came out of his body Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to ...

So far, no preventative vaccination against malaria exists, and its control depends heavily upon antimalarial drugs that kill parasites inside the human body. Malaria has been noted for more than ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly ...

They sliced into it and found a baby tapeworm. “Of course I was grossed ... where they can migrate throughout the entire body, including the brain. The larval form appears as a fluid-filled ...

He said tapeworms are unlikely ever again to be collected intact like the one on display because modern antiparasitic drugs cause the worms to break up within the body. That’s not to say D.