“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

These cysts can then develop into an adult tapeworm in the intestines which produce eggs that are then passed out through stools. In many cases symptoms of a tapeworm can be mild, but it can cause ...