Cue the ew. A horrifying image of calcified parasites embedded in the soft tissue of a human body has gone viral after Sam Ghali, an emergency room doctor, shared the seriously disturbing scan on X.

It occurs when infectious eggs, shed in the feces of a human tapeworm carrier, are ingested. The condition often spreads through faecal contamination, typically due to improper handwashing or ...

Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from ... discovered a white thread-like object in his feces,” Kuramochi said. “Dr. Satoru Kamegai ...