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Treatment of Humans and Pigs May Reduce Endemic Tapeworm Infection
2016-06-27 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The transmission of Taenia solium, a pork tapeworm species that infects humans and causes late-onset seizures and epilepsy, can be stopped on a population-wide level with mass treatments of both pigs and humans, researchers have shown.
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