You Might Be Hosting a Parasite Right Now. Here’s How to Tell

Nearly 850 species of parasites are known to infect people; some, like the potentially deadly plasmodium parasite that causes ...
Outside

Tapeworms Are Real. I Had One And So Could You.

Tapeworms have been making headlines ever since an investigation by The New York Times turned up a deposition Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave in 2012. In it, the independent candidate running for president ...
New York Post

NYC mother becomes suicidal after decade of seizures — until docs find tapeworm eggs in her brain

Doctors at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens discovered a New York mother who endured more than a decade of seizures was suffering from an infestation of tapeworm larvae in her brain. A New ...
Hosted on MSN

You Might Be Hosting a Parasite Right Now. Here's How to Tell

There are more parasites than any other organism on Earth—which is one of the reasons Emmitt Jolly finds the common but misunderstood creatures so fascinating. “That is the most successful form of ...