An ER doctor explained how a patient suffered a tapeworm infection, with an X-ray showing the larvae all over his pelvis and legs.

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

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...

A recent X-ray scan showcasing calcified parasites embedded throughout a patient's body has gone viral, highlighting the ...

Medical professor Sam Ghali disgusted social media users after revealing one of the "most insane X-rays I’ve ever seen" in a ...

Essentially these are larval cysts of taenia solium - also known as the pork tapeworm ... Ghali warned: "The problem is when ...

Speaking over the X-Ray pictures, Dr Ghali explained that the small white marks were dozens of calcified tapeworm eggs, which ...

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

Dr Sam Ghali, an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida, shared the X-ray images in an ...

Affecting the brain, neurocysticercosis is responsible ... When abroad in an area endemic with Taenia solium before 2021, he consumed pork from pigs raised in uncontrolled housing conditions.