“A person can become infected by consuming water or food that is contaminated with tapeworm eggs or larvae, particularly raw or undercooked fish or meat,” Dr. Stork, who did not treat ...

These cysts can then develop into an adult tapeworm in the intestines which produce eggs that are then passed out through stools. In many cases symptoms of a tapeworm can be mild, but it can cause ...

The eggs were apparently laid by a parasite known as a pork tapeworm, which infects humans when they eat pork. Although bones of boars or pigs possibly raised by humans had been found when the ...