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.

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And in their larvae form, they will spread throughout the body and, depending on what tissues in the body they end in, they cause a disease called cysticercosis. Where might these larvae travel in ...