A fifth case of pork tapeworm has been diagnosed in a child at Het Molentje primary school in Lier. Do we have to worry? Doctor Koen Vanden Driessche from the UZA and Joris Moonens from the Department of Healthcare answer the six most important questions about this worm. “We never see such an outbreak in the West. The last known case was thirty years ago in New York.”
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Six questions about the pork tapeworm, now that the fifth child is infected: “It can sometimes take years before the symptoms become visible”
