With brain tapeworms in the news today, I thought I'd share this column from back in my Discover days, on the gruesome but surprisingly common disease known as neurocysticercosis www.discovermagazine.com/health/hidde...
I love when I click on a link to an article I'm interested in, and am then bombarded with advertisements and pop ups trying to take me elsewhere or convince me to give them money.
No wait, no, I love the other thing where you can just read the article.
After traveling in India for months where pigs roam free in the streets I understood all those biblical warnings about eating pork. The one thing the article got wrong is that the pigs accidentally eat the larva as they look for other food. Pigs enthusiastically eat the human poop it's no accident.