> The finding surprised the doctors since tapeworms aren’t endemic to Spain and he said he hadn’t traveled. However, the man may have been exposed during his work. Until 10-years prior, when he retired, he had worked in construction, often working alongside people who had migrated from regions where pork tapeworms (Taenia solium) are endemic. The parasitic worms can spread through the fecal-oral route. His doctors speculated his infection might have been a rare case of cryptic transmission from sharing meals and bathrooms with his coworkers, one of whom apparently had a tapeworm infection.
yikes
You are right about pork especially in foreign countries where no health standards parasites are known to exist in pork not to mention meningitis from pork as well.
That's pretty much the only way norovirus spreads, and it's common enough to kill ~200,000 people a year.
Moral of the story, eating shit and undercooked meat come with risks.
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Where did you/your ancestors migrate from, and did any of them do any work at any point?