Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient’s mouth, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

(A 20-foot-long tapeworm caused a man to lose 22 pounds in three days. This story originally appeared on Newser: Out of Guy's Mouth, Doctor Pulls Longest Tapeworm He's Ever Seen ...

A 48-year-old man in India has had a six-foot tapeworm pulled out of his intestines via his mouth in an hour-long op Credit: The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr Cyriac Philips, a liver ...

(CNN) -- Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient's mouth, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

(CNN) -- Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient's mouth, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

He had to keep his mouth open. After a while the tapeworm began to come up his throat 'cause he smelled the milk. They kept moving the bowl further away until the tapeworm was completely out. ...

Tapeworms are so unlike other animals, ... as well as a muscular mouth and throat for feeding. But instead of living on their hosts, flukes live in them. Blood flukes ...

The tumor-like parasites can also spread to the lungs, brain, heart, bone, and other organs. In humans, the infection is insidious, with an asymptomatic incubation period of between 5 and 15 years.

Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient’s mouth, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.. Dr ...

Doctors in India were stunned when they pulled out a 6-foot-long tapeworm living in a man’s stomach. One of the doctors who treated the man said it was the longest worm he's ever seen. Live ...

Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient's mouth, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Doctors in India were stunned when they pulled out a 6-foot-long tapeworm living in a man’s stomach. One of the doctors who treated the man said it was the longest worm he's ever seen. Live ...