“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 ...

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 ...

It involves swallowing a pill that has a tapeworm egg, so you give yourself a tapeworm infection. Tapeworm infections can have serious health complications and even result in death. Over one in 20 ...

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 ...

The gross-out factor is strong. Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from a hapless diner’s intestine. Toshiaki Kuramochi, the museum director ...