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 ...

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

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts in soft tissues.

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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 ...

Speaking over the X-Ray pictures, Dr Ghali explained that the small white marks were dozens of calcified tapeworm eggs, which ...

He explained that the unnamed patient developed the condition after eating raw or undercooked pork which contained tapeworm larvae. The larvae - newly hatched worms - get into body tissues and ...

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 ...

Dr Ghali said in the video that the condition, known as "cysticercosis" was caused by the "larval cyst of taenia solium, also known as the pork tapeworm". He said the cysts can travel "throughout ...

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 ...

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