The researchers say the technology could have many practical uses, such as making it easier to attach drugs or sensors to the ...

From microscopic mites dwelling in our hair follicles to sizable tapeworms inhabiting our intestines, the human body plays ...

the world of parasites. "Parasitic species have a rather dubious reputation with the general public due to their often terrifying body forms and unfamiliar lifecycles that seem straight out of ...

Someone with a tapeworm can infect themselves with tapeworm eggs - a process known as autoinfection - which can pass out of the body as waste ... in the faeces of a human with a tapeworm," says ...

He said tapeworms are unlikely ever again to be collected intact like the one on display because modern antiparasitic drugs cause the worms to break up within the body. That’s not to say D.

And scans revealed his body was infected with tapeworms ... causing the infection. A tapeworm grows inside the intestine of an infected human, sometimes to a length of 15metres.