Cue the ew. A horrifying image of calcified parasites embedded in the soft tissue of a human body has gone viral after Sam ...

A disturbing X-ray image shared by an emergency room doctor has revealed thousands of calcified tapeworm cysts throughout a ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A man was left in horror after an X-ray revealed his body was riddled with tapeworm eggs. The image shows hundreds of 'rice grain' nodules that turned out to be cysts caused by the parasitic ...

It is possible that the individual may have made an unfortunate mistake in the kitchen that led to the parasites camping ...

The tapeworm E.granulosus primarily completes its lifecycle between dogs and sheep, with the intermediate stage in sheep causing hydatid cysts. The tapeworm E.granulosus primarily completes its ...

Echinococcosis: A parasitic infection caused by the Echinococcus tapeworm, leading to the formation of cysts in various organs. Hydatid cyst: The larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus ...