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For people who don't consider this as serious, a reminder from one of the older article: http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hidden-epidemic-tapeworms-in-th

For people who don't consider this as serious, a reminder from one of the older article: http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hidden-epidemic-tapeworms-in-the-brain http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hidden-epidemic-tape... It's bad enough to eat pigs with parasites but probably worse to come in contact with their shit.

ufo 14y ago
Tapeworms are carnivore parasites. Regular tapeworms come from eating a cyst in pig meat. The tapeworm eggs that give rise to those cysts you mentioned come from human feces.