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Pork tapeworm: 1st locally acquired neurocysticercosis case reported in Melbourne, Australia – Outbreak News Today
By NewsDesk @bactiman63 A parasitic disease normally just seen in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has been reported in a 25-year-old Melbourne, Australia woman…
By NewsDesk @bactiman63
A parasitic disease normally just seen in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has been reported in a 25-year-old Melbourne, Australia woman with no history of travel, according to a case report in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a disease caused by infection of the central nervous system with the larval stage of the tapeworm Taenia solium.
The woman presented with worsening visual symptoms in associatio…
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