And, from the intestines they travel up the back in the spinal cord into the muscles of the body and finally into the brain. The lives of people with such poisonous worms in their bodies are usually limited to less than one hundred years. There are a few who live past a hundred years, whose constitutions may have been much stronger than others. The pig is a mass of worms. Each mouthful you eat is not a nutritious food but a mass of small worms the naked eye cannot detect.
Worms thrive in the hog.
When these worms are digested into your system, they cause a high birth rate to hundreds of new worms called larvae which travels the blood stream of your system and lodge in your muscles. These worms even enter you brain, lungs or your spinal fluid. They cause muscular aches, fever and many other symptoms of sickness. The worm has an amazing ability to go undetected in your system for many years. The scientific name of the ill-causing worm found in all pork is Trichinella spiralis which causes trichinosis.