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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Taenia asiatica
is commonly known as Asian taenia or Asian tapeworm and is a parasitic
tapeworm of humans and pigs. It is one of the three species of Taenia
that infect humans and causes taeniasis. Discovered only in 1980s from
Taiwan and other East Asian countries, it is notoriously similar to
Taenia saginata that it was believed to be a slightly different strain.
But the taxonomic consensus turns out to be that it is a unique species.
