Don’t forget to cook your pork.
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A person can’t get neurocysticerosis from uncooked pork. Ingesting the larvae in uncooked pork will give a person a tapeworm.
Neurocysticerosis occurs when humans inadvertently ingest tapeworm eggs directly from soil, skipping the cow/pig intermediate host. The eggs will then hatch in the human, just as they would in a pig or cow, and migrate to form a cysticercus. If they happen to migrate to the brain, they’ll form a neurocysticerosis.
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