Eating undercooked meat is never a good idea—it can give you a nasty case of food poisoning within 24 hours. And there are ...

“A person can become infected by consuming water or food that is contaminated with tapeworm eggs or larvae, particularly raw or undercooked fish or meat,” Dr. Stork, who did not treat ...

We can see objects as small as 0.1 millimeters, and that means we can just about see these lice eggs in our hair and ... and the head of a dog tapeworm no bigger than a grain of rice.

In humans, although the tapeworm can cause an upset stomach, it can also be asymptomatic – apart from rice grain-sized eggs in the faeces. Anthelmintic drugs, including praziquantel and ...