Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

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There are two forms of human infection. One is "primary hosting", called taeniasis, and is due to eating under-cooked pork that contains the cysts and results in adult worms in the intestines. This form generally is without symptoms; the infected person does not know they have tapeworms. This form is easily treated with anthelmintic medications which eliminate the tapeworm. The other form, "secondary hosting", called cysticercosis, is due to eating food, or drinking water, contaminated with faeces from someone infected by the adult worms, thus ingesting the tapeworm eggs, instead of the cysts. The eggs go on to develop cysts primarily in the muscles, and usually with no symptoms. However some people have obvious symptoms, the most harmful and chronic form of which is when the cysts form in the brain. Treatment of this form is more difficult but possible.ll

Adult T. solium is a triploblastic acoelomate, having no body cavity. It is normally 2 to 3 metres (6' to 10') in length, but can become much larger, sometimes over 8 metres (30') long...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taenia_solium