Experts say Diphyllobothrium latum are among the most common - and largest - of the tapeworms that can take up residence in human bellies. They can grow up to 30 feet, according to the CDC.

A Chinese woman has had an 8-foot-long tapeworm removed from her stomach after she ate an undercooked holiday meal. Doctors discovered the tapeworm after she complained of feeling unwell. The woman… ...

A RARE 10cm-long ribbon-shaped tapeworm lived in a man’s brain for four years, moving five centimetres across his brain, before being detected. AFP and Ian Horswill 2 min read ...

Last week, his spokesman said that the worm — a pork tapeworm — hadn’t left him with any long-term physical or mental health problems and that he was fit to run for president.

A major group of tapeworms, parasitic flatworms that can grow to more than 30 feet long in the digestive tracks of humans, fish and other animals while absorbing their nutrients, has been ...

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.

Humans are the only definitive host for the tapeworms Taenia saginata and Taenia solium. T. saginata, or the beef tapeworm, is very long (up to 15 feet or more), but generally poses little danger ...

Experts say Diphyllobothrium latum are among the most common – and largest – of the tapeworms that can take up residence in human bellies. They can grow up to 30 feet, according to the CDC.