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