Cue the ew. A horrifying image of calcified parasites embedded in the soft tissue of a human body has gone viral after Sam ...

X-ray images reveal the disturbing result of a culinary blunder that led to a man becoming infested with tapeworm eggs. Sam Ghali, an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of ...

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts in soft tissues.

He explained: "This is a condition known as cysticercosis. Essentially these are larval cysts of taenia solium - also known as the pork tapeworm." According to Ghali, this occurs from a human ...

A doctor has shared stomach-turning X-ray images of a man who had tapeworms breeding inside of him after he made a serious ...

In Georgia, a 15-centimeter living parasite was found in the human brain. "This is the first confirmed case of a live ...

He explained that the unnamed patient developed the condition after eating raw or undercooked pork which contained tapeworm larvae. The larvae - newly hatched worms - get into body tissues and ...

The patient’s condition, identified as cysticercosis, was caused by larval cysts of taenia solium (pork tapeworm) after consuming raw or undercooked pork. A shocking image of calcified parasites ...

United States doctor Dam Ghali shared the image of an unnamed patient, claiming it was “one of the most insane X-rays I’ve ...

The most common form, she said, is the adult tapeworm, which is ingested from undercooked pork and lives in the gut. But there’s another, less common way to get the parasite. People who have the ...

Essentially these are larval cysts of taenia solium - also known as the pork tapeworm." According to Ghali, this occurs from a human consuming raw or uncooked pig, and then the person becoming ...