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Ep 96 Tapeworm: We encyst you listen

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Is It a Fish Tape Worm or a Hookworm?

Fish tape worms, fish are the definitive hosts of tapeworms. They often have two intermediate hosts - copopods or mammals and birds. When they start acting a way that they're not supposed to we as humans get infected with the wrong life stage which is when problems arise. So instead of an adult tapeworm in our gut, these eggs hatch in our stomach,. invade through our gut walls, travel through our blood stream to our tissues and insist themselves on eventually being eaten.

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