Forbes

Here’s How Worms Get Into Your Brain And How To Prevent It

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Mark Kortepeter covers infectious disease and public health topics Unlike the fictional worms in “Star Trek2: Wrath of Khan,” ...
Ledger-Enquirer

Doctors find tapeworm larva in man’s brain

Luis Ortiz went to the emergency room in early September with a terrible headache and nausea, became comatose and when he woke up doctors told him he had a tapeworm larvae living in his brain and ...
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Horror X-ray reveals man's body INFESTED with hundreds of breeding creatures after common kitchen mistake

A disturbing X-ray image shared by an emergency room doctor has revealed thousands of calcified tapeworm cysts throughout a patient's pelvis and legs. Dr Sam Ghali, Assistant Professor in Emergency ...
Outside

Tapeworms Are Real. I Had One And So Could You.

Tapeworms have been making headlines ever since an investigation by The New York Times turned up a deposition Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave in 2012. In it, the independent candidate running for president ...
Time

You Might Be Hosting a Parasite Right Now. Here’s How to Tell

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. There are more parasites than any other organism on Earth—which is one of the reasons Emmitt Jolly finds ...