The patient’s condition, identified as cysticercosis, was caused by larval cysts of taenia solium (pork tapeworm) after ...

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

An ER doctor explained how a patient suffered a tapeworm infection, with an X-ray showing the larvae all over his pelvis and legs.

Fish have feelings too – at least if a lonesome sunfish in a Japanese aquarium is anything to go by. Animal caretakers at the ...

A lonely sunfish has been given cardboard human friends by staff at an aquarium in Japan to help improve its mental health.

Staff members believe the sunfish stopped eating when the aquarium was temporarily closed because it was lonely.