The most common route of infection is eating undercooked infected pork that contains tapeworm cysts, known as cysticercus. When the parasite senses the digestive juices of your small intestine ...

Pork tapeworms may produce 50,000 eggs in one batch. The cysticercus -- young tapeworms -- then develop over 2 months into adult tapeworms, which can survive for years, according to the CDC.