Pork can carry taenia solium larvae, a parasitic tapeworm. After eating infected pork, the larvae get into body tissues where ...

A 41-year-old man from Hanoi, suffering from years of seizures and chronic headaches, recently discovered that a tapeworm had been living inside his brain.

explaining that the patient had developed the condition after eating undercooked pork infected with tapeworm larvae. In the final stage of the disease, the cysts degenerate and die, leaving a ...

“A person can become infected by consuming water or food that is contaminated with tapeworm eggs or larvae, particularly raw or undercooked fish or meat,” Dr. Stork, who did not treat ...

Sam Ghali, an urgent care doctor from the University of Florida, recently shared an image of the X-ray on social media, explaining that the patient had developed the condition after eating undercooked ...

The gross-out factor is strong. Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from a hapless diner’s intestine. Toshiaki Kuramochi, the museum director ...