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Flukes & tapeworms

Taenia solium

You get the tapeworm from the pork and the brain cysts from human faeces. Same parasite, two entirely different diseases.

Filed under Pathogen Constellation Flukes & tapeworms Status Upcoming

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What we have so far

You get the tapeworm from the pork and the brain cysts from human faeces. Same parasite, two entirely different diseases.

This star is on the map because the show intends to take the question apart properly — the trials, how it is actually tested, whether the thing sold is the thing studied. That work is not done yet, and nothing here should be read as a conclusion. When the investigation is published it will appear on this page.

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