Put away the soy sauce and wasabi and get ready to be grossed out. 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 ...

He told an emergency room physician he had a liking for raw fish — specifically, salmon sashimi. It's what the 30-year-old man, from Fresno, Calif., suspected had landed him in the bathroom with ...

Brown bears can be infected with multiple tapeworms at once. Brown bears get infected with tapeworms thanks to eating salmon. Tapeworms can grow up to 30 feet long in the brown bear’s intestines. Wild ...

Tapeworm infections were common in the late 19th century due to a lack of food safety laws and meat inspections. Historical accounts from Muncie detail tapeworms growing to dozens of feet long inside ...