I ate something on a trip to Brazil and now I’ve been having terrible stomach issues. I’ve read about people who have had tapeworms and I don’t know if I have one. How do you know if you have a ...

Dr. Bethany spent a year at a small animal-exclusive practice in Washington state, where she was first introduced to … ...

Susan E. Little, DVM, PhD, DACVM (Parasitology), explains why tapeworm and heartworm tests miss cases, how fecal flotation falls short, and why clinician judgment matters most.

You might think of tapeworms as awful parasites that find their way into your intestine, grow as big as 50 feet long, and cause horrible gastrointestinal issues. But that’s only one step of a larger ...

Tapeworms might not be the cutest or cuddliest of creatures cooked up by Mother Nature, but what they lack in charm, they more than make up for with a few very special abilities. You see, tapeworms ...

Janine Caira's lifelong passion began on a beach in Baja California. She was in her 20s, studying for her parasitology PhD at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, when a friend who worked as a guard ...

Startling footage from a colonoscopy reveals the presence of tapeworms in the intestines of a 70-year-old cancer patient, prompting immediate medical intervention. The following article contains ...

A man suffering from seizures, disorientation, and "speaking gibberish" had tapeworms in his brain. Doctors in the new case study said he had carried the parasites for years without symptoms.