A Fresno man with an obsessive appetite for raw salmon sushi provided Dr. Kenny Banh, an emergency physician at Community Regional Medical Center, with a great story to share with producers of “This ...

Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient's mouth, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Cyriac ...

Imagine going to the doctor for unexplained stomach pains and end up having a 6-feet worm pulled out of your mouth. This chill-inducing scenario was exactly what happened to a 48-year-old man in India ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Fresno man with an obsessive appetite for raw salmon sushi provided Dr. Kenny Banh, an emergency physician at Community Regional Medical Center, with a great story to share with producers of “This ...