Patients with cysticercosis cannot spread their disease to other people; it is only people with a
tapeworm infection in the intestine who can spread the potentially life-threatening eggs when proper hygiene is lacking or ignored.
It is true the pig
tapeworm can cause severe spinal and brain damage in humans.The week was awash with many health issues concerning food of animal origin.
The lesions were consistent with neurocysticercosis, which is defined by the World Health Organization as a 'parasitic infection of the central nervous system and is caused by the pork
tapeworm Taenia solium.' Humans may be infected by this after eating undercooked food, particularly pork or water contaminated with
tapeworm eggs.
In Japan, the causative agent of diphyllobothriasis has long been considered to be the
tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum (proposed as Dibothriocephalus latus in 2017) (2), ever since the first case of diphyllobothriasis reported in 1889 (12).
Tapeworm infection has a global distribution and is endemic in Southeast Asia, including Pakistan.
The man was infected by pork
tapeworm after eating raw meat.
While most cats do not show any clinical illness from this
tapeworm infection, it is certainly distressing to the family.
'The ballooning costs of (health care) act as a hungry
tapeworm on the American economy.
Researchers at Cardiff and Dundee universities have discovered that a drug traditionally used to treat
tapeworm infections, Niclosamide, is also an effective activator of the PINK1 protein.
Clockwise from top left, 'Healing 6 months later', by Kathleen Sheffer; 'Chloroplasts', dying euglenoid alga showing the release of its chloroplasts (green) taken from a polluted lake in Vietnam by Steve Gschmeissner; 'Surface Tension' , a safety pin sitting on the surface of water by Richard Germain; '
Tapeworm', a micrograph of the head of a pork
tapeworm by Teresa Zgoda; and cellulose fibres in a Kleenex tissue by Alessandra Menegon