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

The tapeworm taenia solium enters the human body by ingesting the parasite’s larval cysts. These eggs can then develop into adult tapeworms in a human’s gut, usually around 5 to 12 weeks.

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 ...

Though the tapeworm can develop within weeks in the human gut, cysticercosis is caused by the migration of larvae into soft tissues where they eventually calcify and form cysts. Here's a video I ...

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 ...

AN "insane" X-ray has revealed a man infested with hundreds of tapeworm eggs after making a huge error in the kitchen. The man only discovered he had the eggs after ...

The eggs later mature into adult tapeworms in the gut over 5 to 12 weeks. However, Ghali clarified that eating the parasite doesn’t directly cause cysticercosis. He explained, “The life cycle ...

A doctor was left stunned after an X-ray revealed a man infested with hundreds of tapeworm eggs. A doctor has been left stunned after he made a disgusting discovery inside a man’s body following ...

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 ...

So, I pulled a box of Sentry that I purchased earlier, and it does treat Tapeworm Larvae! Unfortunately, I have to wait three weeks before I can apply the flea larvae-killing Sentry. Double ...