Pork+Tapeworm

Pork Tapeworm-//Taenia solium//



** ﻿ ﻿Class:** Cestodes **Location**: Worldwide **Size**: 2-8 meters **Habitat:** The Pork Tapeworm lives on the ground where the pig lives and gets into the pigs food. They then infect the pigs by getting into thier food. They then find a human host. They find a place to grow in any of the organs. **Living Requirements**: Pork Tapeworms need a host to lay their eggs for them to grow. They infect pigs then infect humans when the pork gets ingested by humans. The tapeworms then need a place to hatch from the eggs and grow. **Life Cycle**: Pork Tapeworms have two host. Thier intermediate host is the pig which eats the eggs of the tapeworms. They go into larval stage while inside the pig's intestines. This can develop a cyst-like structure. Then, the pig get cooked or not all the way cooked. Humans then eat that meat with the larva stage of the tapeworms. They migrate to the human's intestine and takes the larva to reach maturity within 5 to 12 weeks. They can be attached and live in the intestines up to 25 years. They can reproduce 1,000 more tapeworms. **Interesting Facts:**
 * Phylum:** Platyhelimenthes
 * They can causee cysticercosis in humans that can give cyst-like structures.
 * The symptoms can spread anywhere in the body besides the intestines.
 * There are approximately 50 million cases of Pork Tapeworms.


 * Human Impact:** Humans have no impact of tapeworms when the tapeworm infect the pig and humans.

Zookeeper: Marissa Jenkins [] [] []