Tapeworms are intestinal parasites that are shaped similarly to a tape measure. Their eggs typically enter a human host from animals through food, particularly raw or undercooked meat.

How common are pinworm and tapeworm infections in humans? In the U.S., about half of kids between the ages of 5 and 10 will have a pinworm infection at some point. ...

Parasites are organisms that live in and feed off a living host. There are a variety of parasitic worms that can take up residence in humans. Among them are flatworms, roundworms, and thorny ...

Adding to the tapeworm's general disgust level is the fact that the largest genus to infect humans is Diphyllobothrium, which can grow from 6.5 feet to almost 60 feet in length.

The tapeworm taenia solium enters the human body by ingesting the parasite’s larval cysts. These eggs can then develop into adult tapeworms in a human’s gut, usually around 5 to 12 weeks.

Humans are the main host of mature tapeworms, but they need help from other intermediaries to spread. Once the tapeworm is attached to the human intestinal wall using the hooks and suckers on its ...

A parasite never before seen in humans has been found burrowing in the internal organs of two moose hunters. The hunters, both from New Hampshire, were infected with the rare tapeworm after ...