Litobothrium aenigmaticum Caira, Jensen, Waeschenbach,& Littlewood 2014 is a cestode species that parasitizes pelagic thresher sharks in Taiwan and the Gulf of California. A previous study using light ...

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...

Tapeworm cases from raw fish have jumped in urban areas in recent years. June 16, 2009— -- One summer day in August 2006, Anthony Franz went to a Chicago area hospital carrying a 9-foot worm. He ...

Anna Phillips holds a colorized electron microscope image of a species of tapeworm taken from a cow-nosed ray (“Rhinoptera bonasus”), a marine animal. Produced by Kiersten Jensen at the University of ...

Luis Ortiz can’t remember much about his nearly three-month hospital stay this fall. He said his brush with death started with an intense headache. After suffering debilitating pain that spurred fits ...

Eating undercooked meat is never a good idea—it can give you a nasty case of food poisoning within 24 hours. And there are other, longer-term risks to be wary of too. The pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) ...