According to Dr. Ghali, the diagnosis stems from cysticercosis – a disease caused by the larvae of the pork tapeworm - Taenia solium, which infects both humans and pigs. It occurs if you swallow ...

Great. Though the man had suffered with migraines previously, his usual medication wasn’t helping anymore and doctors sent him for scans, where he was found to have tapeworm larval cysts in his brain, ...

Porcine cysticercosis (PC) is an important public health problem, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, but limited information is available on the prevalence of infection in pigs entering the food chain.

aCenter for Parasitic Organisms, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, and Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control, the Ministry of Education, Zhongshan Medical College, Sun ...