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The pork tapeworm

The pork tapeworm. Taenia solium. This boy has a tapeworm growing inside him. The pork tapeworm lives i nside t he s mall intestine. It eats our food a nd c an grow up to 3 metres long. small intestine. How does it spread?.

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The pork tapeworm

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  1. The pork tapeworm Taenia solium

  2. This boy has a tapeworm growing inside him.

  3. The pork tapeworm lives inside the small intestine. It eats our food and can grow up to 3 metres long. small intestine

  4. How does it spread? Tapeworm segments come out with the faecesreleasing thousands of eggs into the environment.

  5. You can see the tapeworm segments in the faeces.

  6. But the tapeworm eggs are too small to see. They spread easily and contaminate the soil and water supply.

  7. The eggs spread easily Worm eggs get onto our hands, food and drinking water.

  8. Swallowing tapeworm eggs is dangerous. Tapeworm eggs grow into cysts in the brain, eyes and muscles causing epilepsy (fits), blindness,paralysis, severe headaches, insanity and even death.

  9. Brain damagecaused by tapeworm cysts.

  10. Pigs get infected • Free-range pigs get infected by eating human faeces containing tapeworm eggs.

  11. Pork infected with cysts. The eggs grow into cystsand can be found in infected meat.

  12. People get tapewormsfrom eating cystsin undercooked meat.

  13. The life cycle (Neurocystercycosis transmission) The pork tapeworm solutions.ppt

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