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Health officials in a Belgian city have identified the source of pork tapeworm infections at a school. Department Zorg said ...
A 52-year-old Florida man presented to hospital with complaints that his usual migraines had worsened over the past four ...
“Cysticercosis is a condition caused by infection with the larval form of Taenia Solium, a pork tapeworm that uses pigs as an ...
“Cysticercosis is a condition caused by infection with the larval form of Taenia Solium, a pork tapeworm that uses pigs as an ...
There they develop into cysticerci, hence the name of this kind of pork tapeworm infection: cysticercosis. Given that this man had presented with neurocysticercosis rather than taeniasis ...
Scans found tapeworm larval cysts in his brain - which cause cysticercosis. Doctors put the condition down to "improper handwashing". They believe the man, who got a tapeworm from eating underdone ...
US General William Crawford Gorgas, a tropical medicine pioneer and native Alabamian, is credited with the elimination of yellow fever and malaria that allowed the Panama Canal to be built. For over ...