Meyer had spent nearly a year feeling constantly fatigued and lacking an appetite — so while the orange tapeworm with a head, neck and 50 segments left him “absolutely freaking out,” it was ...

“It” was a 25-inch, orange tapeworm with a head, neck and 50 segments. “I FaceTimed my mom and was like, ‘What the hell is this thing?’ ” he said. “I was freaking out. Absolutely ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s claim in his 2012 divorce deposition that previous health issues were “caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died” is a now ...

The gross-out factor is strong. Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from a hapless diner’s intestine. Toshiaki Kuramochi, the museum director ...