Question

Q.19. One of the following settles in the muscle of the host and is referred to as Measly Pork: a) Hexacanth b) Cysticerous c) Onchosphere d) Hydatid​

Answer 1

Answer:

hexacanth is your answer

Answer 2

The correct option is B) CYSTICERCUS

• Cysticerous is an infection of both humans and pigs with the larval stages of the parasitic cestode, 'Taenia Solium'

• MEASLY PORK ⇒ᶠˡᵉˢʰ ᵒᶠ ᵃ ᵖᶦᵍ ʷʰᶦᶜʰ ᶜᵒⁿˢᶦˢᵗˢ ᵒᶠ ᵐᵃⁿʸ ᵖᵒʳᵏ ʷᵒʳᵐˢ ᶜᵃˡˡᵉᵈ ᵐᵉᵃˢˡʸ ᵗᵃᵖᵉʷᵒʳᵐ.

Taenia Solium → ᵀᴴᴵˢ ᵀᴬᴾᴱᵂᴼᴿᴹ ᴵⁿᶠᵉᶜᵗˢ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠˡᵉˢʰʰ ᵒᶠ ᵖᶦᵍ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵐᵃᵏᵉˢ ᶦᵗ ᵖᵒᶦˢᶦⁿᵒᵘˢ.

Infected Pork → sometime called 'Measly pork' because you can see the cysts, which are off white and look like large roe ( fish egg )

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→ The pig is an intermediate of certain worms which results in the poisoning of the food,

→ The meat contains a large number of worms which when consumed will result in the transfer of worm eggs in humans causing diseases.

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Additional information ;

• Pork is the name that is used for domesticated pigs.

• Taenia Solium is also known as pork tapeworm which is found in human but its secondary host is mostly pigs.

• this tapeworms may be transported from humans to the pigs through feces of humans.

• may be transferred back to the humans through those pigs which contain tapeworm cysts via food.