A dangerous tapeworm linked to severe disease in humans and dogs has now been detected in Pacific Northwest coyotes for the first time, raising new public health concerns.

The internet blew up recently on reports that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a worm in his brain. Unfortunately, the medical problem that reportedly plagued RFK Jr., called neurocysticercosis, caused by ...

Parasites are organisms that survive by feeding on humans and other hosts, often causing mild to severe health problems. They can enter the body in multiple ways, including consuming contaminated food ...

A dangerous tapeworm, not found in Pacific Northwest wildlife until this year, is more widespread than researchers expected. Echinococcus multilocularis, a tapeworm that can cause severe disease in ...

New evidence suggests that a disease-causing tapeworm that has been spreading across the United States and Canada has arrived in the Pacific Northwest. The tapeworm, called Echinococcus multilocularis ...

Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr's health is in the spotlight again – this time relating to a neurological issue. In a 2012 deposition recently reviewed by the New York ...

Parasitic diseases, which are passed on to people via parasites found in contaminated food, water, soil or bugs that bite humans, can be relatively uncommon in some parts of the world. In other ...