SEOUL — Parasitic worms found in a North Korean soldier who was critically injured during a desperate defection highlight nutrition and hygiene problems that experts say have plagued the ...

Parasites like tapeworms (file pic) can live inside people's digestive tracts A North Korean soldier who was shot while fleeing across the border has an extremely high level of parasites in his ...

A North Korean soldier who was shot five times and seriously wounded while defecting had "an enormous number" of parasitic worms in his body, said a medic who operated on him, according to media ...

The prevalence of parasitic worms causing health problems in North Korea may be the result of a personal intervention by Kim Jong Un, who urged farmers to spread human excrement on their fields to ...

Tapeworms are flat, segmented worms that live in the intestines of some animals. Animals can become infected with these parasites when grazing in pastures or drinking contaminated water. Eating ...

Fish tapeworm infections are more common in countries where the consumption of raw fish is common practice. These include Europe, North America, and some countries in Asia.

The National Security Agency has linked Kim Jong Un’s government in North Korea to a computer virus that affected more than 300,000 people in about 150 countries last month.

Wild salmon from the Pacific coast of North America may be infected with Japanese tapeworms, according to a study in a CDC-published journal.

Tapeworms Have Been Upsetting Stomachs For At Least 99 Million Years, First Fossil Suggests A tentacle trapped in amber is the first body fossil of a tapeworm ever discovered.

Long after I’m dead, there will be stingrays swimming the Arafura Sea infested with tapeworms that bear my name. There are about 1.8 million species with names, out of an estimated 8 to 9 ...

Wild salmon from the Pacific coast of North America may be infected with Japanese tapeworms, according to a study in a CDC-published journal.

Almost all of the previous cases of tapeworm infections occurring in Japan, South Korea and the Pacific coast of Russia had actually been caused by Japanese tapeworms rather than D. latum.