Tapeworm is an intestinal infection caused by three types of tapeworms:

-  The only tapeworm (pig tapeworm)

- The barefoot tapeworm (cow tapeworm)

- The Asian tapeworm.


A person can become infected with an isolated tapeworm or Asian tapeworm when consuming beef or pork liver tissue that is infected with the disease and is not cooked well, respectively, but the tapeworm disease caused by the defective tapeworm or the Asian tapeworm does not have a significant impact on human health, and accordingly, this paper shows These are the only modes of transmission and their health effects only.


A person becomes infected with a tapeworm only infection when he eats raw or undercooked pork that is infected with the disease, and the tapeworm infection causes few clinical symptoms.

Pigs are infected with eggs excreted by the infected tapeworm in their feces, and a person may also become infected if they swallow these eggs (by spreading them into the environment by feces contaminated with them, or by eating food or drinking water contaminated with them), which causes infection with a parasite The larvae present in the tissues (human cysticercosis).


Human cysticercosis can have devastating effects on human health. The larvae of cysticercosis may grow in the muscles, skin, eyes, and central nervous system.

 When cysts grow in the brain, this health condition is called neuro cysticercosis, and its symptoms include severe headaches, blindness, convulsions, and seizures, and it may kill the person with it.