Experts have helped develop risk-based approaches to control two parasites in meat, requiring the re-evaluation of traditional practices and the assessment of regulatory and industry resources. The ...

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. Spare a thought for the patient ...

An Iowa woman recently discovered something worse than being overweight: swallowing a parasitic worm in order to drop a few pounds. The woman went to her doctor and admitted she’d bought a tapeworm ...

The prevalence of measles (cysticercosis bovis) is growing at an alarming rate from 10-12 per cent around 2006 to 18-20 per cent to date. Measles is a zoonotic parasitic disease of worldwide ...

Doctors were shocked this week when they found a 59-foot long tapeworm in a Thai man's rectum. The 67-year-old patient visited the hospital, in Nong Khai province, Thailand, complaining of stomach ...

Carmen C. Velasquez and Pedro Chanco, Jr. The Journal of Parasitology is the official publication of the American Society of Parasitologists (ASP). It has been in print continuously since 1914, when ...

A man has passed a 20-foot tapeworm after contracting the parasite from undercooked beef. The man, from central China, was mildly ill for two years. However, a deterioration in his condition, ...

A man in China who enjoyed eating raw beef became infected with a parasite — a 20-foot-long tapeworm —that came from including this food in his diet, a new case report reveals. The parasite had ...