Animals Involved
Domestic and wild pigs, occasionally cattle, goats, monkeys are intermediate hosts; people are definitive hosts
Known Distributions
Asia
Probable Means of Spreading
Ingestion of undercooked animal products, usually visceral organs such as liver and lung
Clinical Manifestations in People
Vague abdominal complaints and proglottid passage; anal pruritus; possible that ingestion of eggs may be followed by larval migration and disseminated disease (uncertain/controversial)