2023-09-01 13:24:01
Three pupils at a Flemish primary school, Ecole Het Molentje in Lier, were infected with a rare pork tapeworm at the end of the previous school year, reports The newspapaer. In the meantime, the children have recovered and have been able to return to school, but parents and children in the school are asked to be extra vigilant.
At the end of June, three children were very tired, suffered from headaches and had seizures. An MRI identified a pork tapeworm that had lodged in their brains. They have since recovered, but the pork tapeworm is highly contagious and dangerous.
Children who have already suffered from tapeworm can no longer be infected once more, but since the original infection has not yet been identified, the school asks parents and children to be particularly vigilant. “The infection probably entered our school a year and a half to three years ago, but it is not yet known who introduced it,” Griet Roussau, the director of the school Het Molentje, told our colleagues.
The pork tapeworm, a worm that embeds itself in the brain, is mainly present in South America, Africa under the Sahel and Southeast Asia. It seems that someone brought it from one of these regions.
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