# Tapeworm eggs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-eggs/735548>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 23, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-eggs/735548 "2015-10-23T15:49:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Norman\_Yarvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@Norman\_Yarvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norman_Yarvin)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-eggs/735548/1 "2015-10-23T15:49:43Z")

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As regards:

“You could ingest millions of tapeworm eggs and they’d have absolutely no effect…”

I take it neurocysticercosis didn’t show up on your radar:

[http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hidden-epidemic-tapeworms-in-the-brain](http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hidden-epidemic-tapeworms-in-the-brain)

[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2012/08/19/oy-vey-the-pig-tapeworm/](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2012/08/19/oy-vey-the-pig-tapeworm/)

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-eggs/735548/2 "2015-10-23T16:00:29Z")

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> [@Norman\_Yarvin](#):
>
> As regards:
> 
> “You could ingest millions of tapeworm eggs and they’d have absolutely no effect…”
> 
> I take it neurocysticercosis didn’t show up on your radar:
> 
> [http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hidden-epidemic-tapeworms-in-the-brain](http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hidden-epidemic-tapeworms-in-the-brain)
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> [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2012/08/19/oy-vey-the-pig-tapeworm/](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2012/08/19/oy-vey-the-pig-tapeworm/)

Link to the [original SD Article](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3252/is-it-possible-to-be-infected-by-airborne-tapeworm-eggs) you’re commenting on.