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.

Tapeworms, for example ... Sometimes you can even see the worms moving under your skin or across your eyeball. But not EVERY egg-laying invader is sinister. Face mites are pretty innocuous.

A man was left in horror after an X-ray revealed his body was riddled with tapeworm eggs ... and never, ever, under any circumstances eat raw or undercooked pork'. Incredibly, the patient ...

It was from animal faeces that I ended up getting a worm inside me, and under my skin. "You could see it. I would itch and then you could see this worm moving under my skin. I got quite attached ...

The gross-out factor is strong. Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from a hapless diner’s intestine. Toshiaki Kuramochi, the museum director ...