Pork can carry taenia solium larvae, a parasitic tapeworm. After eating infected pork, the larvae get into body tissues where they form cysts—a condition called cysticercosis. The larvae can travel ...

solium, a parasite that can infect the brain and cause a condition called cysticercosis. In most cases, someone eats food ...

solium is endemic, explained Jorge Burneo, a neurologist at Western University who was not involved in the research. “But we never had basic science evidence that that's the case.” Moving forward, the ...