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The pork tapeworm Taenia solium. This boy has a tapeworm growing inside him.
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The pork tapeworm
Taenia solium
This boy has a tapeworm growing inside him.
It eats our food and
can grow up to 3 metres long.
The pork tapeworm lives inside the small intestine.
small intestine
How does it spread?
Tapeworm segments come out with the faeces
releasing thousands of eggs
into the environment.
You can see the tapeworm segments
in the faeces.
They spread easily and contaminate
the soil and water supply.
But the tapeworm eggs
are too small to see.
The eggs spread easily
Worm eggs get onto our hands, food and drinking
water.
Tapeworm eggs grow into cysts in the brain, eyes and muscles
causing epilepsy (fits), blindness, paralysis,
severe headaches, insanity and even death.
Swallowing tapeworm eggs is dangerous.
Brain damagecaused by tapeworm
cysts.
Free-range pigs get infected
by eating human faeces containing tapeworm
eggs.
Pigs get infected
Pork infected with cysts.
The eggs grow into cysts and can be found in
infected meat.
People get tapeworms
from eating cystsin undercooked meat.
The life cycle (Neurocystercycosis transmission)
The pork tapeworm solutions.ppt