Today we have modern antiparasitic drugs. But 130 years ago, our forebears had nothing but quack cures and prayers to drive ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven’t accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

There are lots of uses for a microscope, but using them to get a closer look at small creatures such as insects can be truly startling especially for those that don't seem all that strange in ...

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Praziquantel is used in veterinary medicine against this very tapeworm (and others) in dogs, cats and foxes, so potentially yes. Usually it's combined with an anthelminthic for a broader ...