Not only is NCC the world's most common helminthic invader of the human brain, it is also one of the leading causes of adult ...

Not very nice, as it happens. One extreme closeup from 2017 reveals the scolex of a Taenia solium tapeworm, and it's just as upsetting as you might imagine. Taken by Teresa Zgoda at the Rochester ...

Doctors diagnosed Palma with neurocysticercosis, a parasitic infection in the brain caused by the tapeworm Taenia solium. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory in the Mayo ...

The man, who was 43 at the time, was believed to have ingested eggs of the parasite Taenia solium — better known as the 'pork tapeworm' — which then hatched. Humans can become infected with ...

solium is endemic, explained Jorge Burneo, a neurologist at Western University who was not involved in the research. “But we never had basic science evidence that that's the case.” Moving forward, the ...