Medical professor Sam Ghali disgusted social media users after revealing one of the "most insane X-rays I’ve ever seen" in a ...

It is possible that the individual may have made an unfortunate mistake in the kitchen that led to the parasites camping ...

Speaking over the X-Ray pictures, Dr Ghali explained that the small white marks were dozens of calcified tapeworm eggs, which ...

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

Brain worms, like the one Robert F ... can be contracted from consuming undercooked, infected pork or drinking contaminated water. "Usually this happens in countries where you have poor sanitation ...

Can you get a brain worm from eating uncooked pork? An individual can contract T. solium by consuming undercooked pork ...

Dr Sam Ghali, an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida, shared the X-ray images in an educational post on X.

Essentially these are larval cysts of taenia solium - also known as the pork tapeworm." According to Ghali, this occurs from ...

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 ...

Consumption of pork abroad When the last patient was invited for history taking, his father described pulling a 1 m-long, ribbon-like worm from his son’s bottom; the boy then received a dose of ...