Surgery is usually required to remove the ... The tapeworm that can cause cysticercosis is a species called Taenia solium, also known as the pork tapeworm. Eggs from this species are passed ...

An emergency room physician shared the CT scan of a patient diagnosed with the parasitic infection called cysticercosis Getty, Sam Ghali, M.D./X An emergency room doctor is sharing the alarming ...

The unsettling diagnosis stems from a parasite called “cysticercosis,” an infection caused by the larvae of the parasite Taenia solium, also known outside the medical community as “Pork ...

After brain scans revealed a dark spot, doctors diagnosed Kennedy with brain cancer and scheduled surgery at Duke University ... from the parasite. Cysticercosis is caused by the eggs of pork ...