Tapeworm, pork

Tapeworm, pork
Taenia solium (also called the armed tapeworm or the measly tapeworm), a worm contracted from undercooked or measly pork, pork infected with the larval forms of the tapeworm. The worm can grow to be 3-6 feet (0.9-1.8 meters) long in the human intestine. The disease caused by the pork tapeworm is called cysticercosis.

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