On occasion, I find myself reassuring worried parents that their child's diarrhea is more likely due to a common stomach virus than to dreaded intestinal worms, which rarely cause gastrointestinal ...

Commonly known as ‘Monkey tapeworm’ the parasitic worm which rarely infects humans was found in a 10-year-old boy in Kurunegala, and is the longest Bertiella worm (70cm) reported globally ...

It’s the largest human tapeworm and is also sometimes referred to as a fish or broad tapeworm. People often contract it after eating raw, contaminated fish, beef or pork, so after the girl’s ...

The closest tapeworm relatives to two of the human pests, ... From that they estimate that people picked up tapeworms between 1.7 million and 170,000 years ago, long before livestock domestication.

Reportedly, the world’s longest Bertiella worm (70cm) or commonly known as Monkey Tapeworm, belonging to the Bertiella genus—a tapeworm which rarely infects humans was found in a young boy ...