A collage of medical scans shows parasites throughout a woman's body after she ate raw pork for 10 years. The images came ...

World Zoonoses Day 2026 highlights the urgent need for surveillance, prevention, and One Health to prevent the next pandemic. , Health, Times Now ...

Praziquantel is a medicine that treats tapeworm by paralyzing the worms, which then pass out of the body. For dwarf tapeworm infections, nitazoxanide may be used instead of praziquantel. Treating ...

Tapeworms can infect people when they eat undercooked or raw meat from infected animals. To treat a tapeworm infection, doctors use medicines that release the worm from the intestines so that it can ...

Taenia solium taeniasis/cysticercosis (TSTC) is a foodborne, zoonotic neglected tropical disease affecting predominately low- and middle-income countries. Humans are definitive hosts for T. solium, ...

Background The Taenia solium cysticercosis-taeniasis complex is a Neglected Tropical Disease of significant public health importance in many impoverished communities worldwide. The parasite is ...

New Zealand has reported E. coli, Clostridium perfringens and Vibrio outbreaks in recent months. An outbreak of acute gastroenteritis associated with a food business was reported in Auckland in June.

Mumbai faces a rising threat of neurocysticercosis due to monsoon floods, warn doctors. The brain infection, caused by pork tapeworm larvae, spreads through contaminated food and water, risks ...

As monsoon rains last in Mumbai, doctors have issued an advisory about the growing risk of tapeworm infections, specifically neurocysticercosis, which is potentially life-threatening as it involves ...

Pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, is a hidden threat that thrives between humans and pigs. In humans, the adult parasite causes intestinal infections (taeniasis), while it can lead to tissue infections ...