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Man in China Contracts Brain Parasite After Eating Hot Pot 中國男子吃完火鍋後，腦部感染寄生蟲

精英翻譯社轉自https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1339351

◎劉宜庭

A man in China ended up with tapeworm larvae in his brain after eating a hot pot meal that was likely undercooked.

中國一名男子在吃過一頓疑似沒煮熟的火鍋後，腦部居然出現絛蟲幼蟲。

The 46-year-old man, who lives in the eastern province of Zhejiang, went to the hospital after developing neurological symptoms, including headaches, dizziness and epilepsy-like episodes of limb twitching and foaming at the mouth.

這名住在浙江省東部的46歲男子，在出現頭痛、暈眩、類似癲癇發作的四肢顫搐、口吐白沫等神經症狀後送醫。

He was diagnosed with neurocysticercosis, a parasitic disease that occurs when a person ingests microscopic eggs from a pork tapeworm （Taenia solium）. When the eggs hatch, the larvae can travel throughout the body, including to the brain, muscles, skin and eyes, where they form cysts.

他被診斷出「神經性囊尾幼蟲病」，一種因人類吃下豬肉絛蟲（有鉤絛蟲）的微粒蟲卵而發生的寄生蟲病。當這些蟲卵孵化時，幼蟲會在人體內流竄，造成腦部、肌肉、皮膚和眼睛等處的囊腫。

Doctors suspect that the man had purchased meat tainted with tapeworm larvae, and that he didn’t cook it well enough to kill those larvae.

醫師懷疑該名男子買到被絛蟲幼蟲污染的肉品，而且他沒有烹煮肉品到足以殺死這些幼蟲的溫度。