“This is a condition known as cysticercosis. Essentially, these are larval cysts of taenia solium — also known as the pork tapeworm.” He explained that the unnamed patient developed 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 ...

Dr Ghali said that the disease, which is termed cysticercosis, is due to the presence of larval cysts of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The parasite infects humans through eating raw or undercooked ...

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 ...

AN "insane" X-ray has revealed a man infested with hundreds of tapeworm eggs after making a huge error in the kitchen. The man only discovered he had the eggs after ...

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A man was left in horror after an X-ray revealed his body was riddled with tapeworm eggs. The image shows hundreds of 'rice grain' nodules that turned out to be cysts caused by the parasitic ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley visits Kenya to see how the beef tapeworm needs to infect both beef cattle and humans to complete its life-cycle. He collects some infected beef in Kenya ...