A horrifying image of calcified parasites embedded in the soft tissue of a human body has gone viral after Sam Ghali, an emergency room doctor, shared the seriously disturbing scan on X.

The taenia solium parasite enters the human body when its larval cysts are ingested. The eggs later mature into adult tapeworms in the gut over 5 to 12 weeks. However, Ghali clarified that eating ...

A chilling X-ray scan displaying calcified parasites embedded throughout a patient's body has gone viral on social ... can develop within weeks in the human gut, cysticercosis is caused by the ...

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

This can happen in various organs of the human body, as well as the muscles ... unnamed patient was actually unaware the tapeworm cysts were in his body. The X-ray was taken after an unrelated ...

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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.

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.

A doctor has been left stunned after he made a disgusting discovery inside a man’s body following a routine X-ray check up. United States doctor Dam Ghali shared the image of an unnamed patient, ...