Hydatid Disease (Part II) : How a tiny tapeworm larva makes you wicked sick (Gross picture alert)
Let's go back to the life cycle of Echinococcus granulosus, the cestode (tapeworm) that causes hydatid disease. (There are two types of people: Those who like studying parasite life cycles, and those who would rather suffer from the parasite. Guess which type we are here at PAZ.) Here is an adult Taenia solium tapeworm, (also known as the pork tapeworm, the kind you get from eating infested, undercooked pork) being extracted from a patient's intestines via endoscopy (this is
