In bad news for sushi lovers, scientists have confirmed that a tapeworm known to infect salmon from the Asian Pacific is also present in fish from U.S. waters. The parasite, known as the Japanese ...

Australians love their sushi and consume more than 115 million servings of seaweed-wrapped rolls and sashimi (slices of raw fish) per year. But a story doing the rounds this week is enough to scare ...

Tapeworms are intestinal parasites similar in shape to tape measures. Their eggs typically enter a human host from animals through food, particularly raw or undercooked meat. Tapeworm eggs can be ...

You’re complaining of having nightmares about your teeth falling out? I dream of intestinal colonization with a 30 foot tapeworm. Everyone’s got their own hang-ups and quite frankly the largest ...