The rarest cancer on record did not begin in a human organ at all. It started inside a parasite, then crossed a biological ...

A disturbing case study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A teenager died from a tapeworm egg infestation in his brain. The 18-year-old had complained of seizures in the emergency ...

As Mumbai continues to battle waterlogged streets and overflowing drains, doctors are now sounding the alarm on a hidden but deadly threat, a brain-damaging tapeworm known as Taenia solium. This isn’t ...