Doctors are telling of a remarkable medical case in which they had to a remove a 6-foot-long tapeworm from a man's gut by pulling it through his mouth. Live Science explains that the 48-year-old ...

The tapeworm, which goes by the scientific name Taenia solium, was nearly 2 meters (6.6 feet) long. In fact, it was the longest worm that Dr. Cyriac Philips, a liver specialist at PVS Memorial ...

A California man who ate sushi every day ended up with a 5-foot-plus long tapeworm inhabiting his body. The Fresno male went to the emergency room complaining of bloody diarrhea, according to Dr ...

A Fresno, Calif., man pulled a 5-and-a-half-foot long tapeworm from his body. His daily sushi habit may be the culprit. On the "This Won't Hurt A Bit" podcast, Dr. Kenny Banh, an emergency ...

The Taenia solium tapeworm was around five centimetres long, indicating that it had been living in Gerard’s brain for at least a decade. The doctors believe that Gerard likely got the tapeworm ...

A Fresno man and avid lover of sushi — more specifically, salmon sashimi — pulled a 5 1/2 foot-long tapeworm out his own body. It had been growing inside of him for some time. Dr. Kenny Banh ...

In January 2018, readers notified us that a number of news outlets had reported that a man in Fresno, California, had walked into a local emergency room carrying a 5-foot-long tapeworm he said he ...

A Thai man made a sickening discovery as he used the toilet this week — a 32-foot-long tapeworm “sticking out of his bottom,” according to a new report. Kritsada Ratprachoom, 44, of Udon ...

When the doctors finally decided to operate, they discovered the horrible truth: a centimeter-long tapeworm had taken up residence in the man's brain. The tapeworm, it turned out, was Spirometra ...