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Pork tapeworms usually live in human intestines, laying eggs that pass out in feces. Pigs eat contaminated food → eggs hatch → larvae migrate and form cysts in their muscles. But if humans eat undercooked pork, those cysts can hatch in our guts and grow into full-blown worms.

Here’s the scary part: Human bodies look enough like pigs to confuse the larvae. So if you swallow the eggs instead of the cysts (contaminated food, poor hygiene), the worms can migrate through your body, including your brain. That’s when it becomes neurocysticercosis, which can be deadly.