I just found two worms on the floor by Savoy’s food bowl,” the woman on the phone said, clearly upset. We’re used to that. I ...

A doctor shared the disturbing X-ray image of a patient who unknowingly had a nightmarish parasite living inside of him. The anonymous patient had visited the doctor for an unrelated hip injury after ...

A doctor has shared stomach-turning X-ray images of a man who had tapeworms breeding inside of him after he made a serious kitchen error. Sam Ghali, an Assistant ...

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Living with someone who has a tapeworm increases the risk of developing cysticercosis. People with tapeworms can even infect themselves with eggs through what's known as autoinfection. The risk is ...

The eggs later mature into adult tapeworms in the gut over 5 to 12 weeks. However, Ghali clarified that eating the parasite doesn’t directly cause cysticercosis. He explained, “The life cycle ...

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 larvae develop into adult tapeworms in the human gut, and the eggs are then passed along through feces. If another person ingests these eggs, either through contaminated food or water ...

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