Neurocysticerosis

October 11, 2007

Don’t forget to cook your pork.



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{ 2 comments }

1 Dr. Val October 11, 2007 at 10:04 am

EWWWWW… I love it!

2 Anonymous May 2, 2008 at 5:54 pm

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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