The patient’s condition, identified as cysticercosis, was caused by larval cysts of taenia solium (pork tapeworm) after consuming raw or undercooked pork.

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In this short film Dr Michael Mosley visits Kenya to see how the beef tapeworm needs to infect both beef cattle and humans to complete its life-cycle. He collects some infected beef in Kenya ...

This case highlights the dangers of eating undercooked pork. A chilling X-ray scan displaying calcified parasites embedded throughout a patient's body has gone viral on social media. The image ...

Tapeworms have an indirect life cycle, they are transmitted through a host such as snails, beetles, earthworms, ants, and houseflies. Once a chicken eats one of these infected hosts the larvae ...