Pork and ham are popular dishes for the holidays. But if you don’t cook them properly, you could end up with hundreds of worms calling your digestive tract home. 46-year-old Zhu Zhongfa ate pork, which had been undercooked and unknowingly ingested the eggs of the dangerous parasite Taenia solium.
As a result, his life was turned upside down as he started experiencing seizures on a regular basis and fainting episodes for weeks, which eventually drove him to seek medical treatment for whatever it was that was plaguing his life. Read the full article here ▶