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survive until you can be conveniently eaten! A wolf or a tiger
will surely come along! In bygone days it did.
The larva is about ¼ inch long, surrounded by a “sac of wa-
ters,” like a tiny water balloon. Looking very closely at this sac,
called a cysticercus, we see a head (scolex), complete with
hooks and suckers, turned inside out, inside a bladder.
As the tiger's teeth bite down on the
cysticercus, the pressure pops it out. The
head is now right side out with hooks
and suckers ready for action. Now it
grows in the tiger!
It quickly hooks into a loop of intes-
tinal wall so it can't be swept away and
begins its growth into a regular long
adult tapeworm. The tiger is the true or
primary host. We were merely the sec-
ondary or intermediate host. Why does
the adult tapeworm prefer the tiger instead of us? Only Mother
Nature knows. But the best way to get to a carnivore is through
its prey.
You can find these larval cysts in your organs using slides of
the cysticercus stage of various common tapeworms. Search in
your muscles, liver, stomach, pancreas, spleen, intestine and
even brain. You will not find even little bits of them in your
white blood cells. My explanation for this curious finding is that
the tapeworm leaves no debris to be cleaned up by your white
blood cells. Evidently your body builds a cyst wall around the
larva to tightly encase it and prevent toxins and debris from
entering your body. Thus your white blood cells are not alerted
in any way. Of course, the larva is much too big to be devoured
by tiny white blood cells anyway. Yet, it seems that if a pack of
white blood cells had attacked the larva just as soon as it hatched
from the egg they would have been able to devour it. Perhaps it
enlarges too rapidly. Perhaps our white blood cells are
preoccupied. In any case, we begin to load up on tapeworm
Fig. 31 Emerged
cysticercus.