The photo revealed countless "rice grain" larval cysts that had lodged inside the patient's soft tissue throughout his leg and abdominal muscles. Ghali posted the video image to his X page on Jan. 16.

Neurocysticercosis is a parasitic infection of the brain. The condition is caused by larval cysts of the pork tapeworm - sacs containing the immature stage of the parasite. The cysts can infect ...

After this application, a doctor typically extracts the mouth larvae surgically using clinical pincers or hemostats. Lidocaine is sometimes injected into cysts to push larvae to the surface.

Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Washington University School of Medicine, Dr Philip Budge, warned the BBC that larvae can create cysts in the brain, a condition known as ...

Echinococcus multilocularis infection is becoming more prevalent in North American wild and domestic canid species ...