“Eating undercooked pork can result in intestinal tapeworm if the pork contains larval cysts,” it adds. But cysticercosis is contracted by swallowing eggs found in the faeces of someone with ...

A doctor posted an X-ray of a patient infested with tapeworm eggs and took the opportunity to issue a warning about a serious culinary mistake. Sam Ghali, a doctor from the United States ...

They think] a tapeworm could help them lose weight, but that is not something I would recommend at all.' He added: 'They can grow up to 30 feet long and can live for 20 years plus. 'You are going to ...

Stomach-churning X-ray pictures show a man left bursting with tapeworm eggs after he made a grave kitchen mistake that allowed the parasites to take root. Sam Ghali, an Assistant Professor in ...

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 ...

Echinococcus multilocularis infection is becoming more prevalent in North American wild and domestic canid species ...