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Carrier in Belgian pork tapeworm case ate meat abroad

A rare illness in Belgium that affected nine people was likely spread after the initial patient ate pork while abroad several years earlier. Human cysticercosis results from ingesting Taenia solium eggs shed by a tapeworm carrier, forming cystic larvae in tissues. Upon consumption by humans, they develop into a new intestinal tapeworm. Affecting the brain, neurocysticercosis
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