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

X-ray images reveal the disturbing result of a culinary blunder that led to a man becoming infested with tapeworm eggs. Sam Ghali, an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of ...

Essentially these are larval cysts of taenia solium - also known as the pork tapeworm." According to Ghali, this occurs from a human consuming raw or uncooked pig, and then the person becoming ...

In Georgia, a 15-centimeter living parasite was found in the human brain. "This is the first confirmed case of a live ...

The eggs were apparently laid by a parasite known as a pork tapeworm, which infects humans when they eat pork. Although bones of boars or pigs possibly raised by humans had been found when 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 ...

He explained that the unnamed patient developed the condition after eating raw or undercooked pork which contained tapeworm larvae. The larvae - newly hatched worms - get into body tissues and ...

Dr Ghali said in the video that the condition, known as "cysticercosis" was caused by the "larval cyst of taenia solium, also known as the pork tapeworm". He said the cysts can travel "throughout ...

A doctor has shared stomach-turning X-ray images of a man who had tapeworms breeding inside of him after he made a serious ...

The parasite infects humans through eating raw or undercooked pork infested with larval cysts. Though the tapeworm can develop within weeks in the human gut, cysticercosis is caused by the ...

Essentially these are larval cysts of taenia solium – also known as the pork tapeworm.” According to Ghali, this occurs from a human consuming raw or uncooked pig, and then the person becoming ...

He explained: “This is a condition known as cysticercosis. Essentially these are larval cysts of taenia solium – also known as the pork tapeworm.” According to Ghali, this occurs from a human ...