Sushi aficionado has 66-inch tapewormA man pulled a 5 foot, 6 inch long tapeworm out of his body, after noticing “what looked like a piece of intestine” while he was using the toilet. The man said he eats sushi daily, specifically raw salmon sashimi, which carries a known risk of parasites and pathogens.
The man wrapped the moving worm around a cardboard toilet paper tube and took it to Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center in a plastic bag.
Measuring the specimen on the floor of the hospital “it stretched a whopping 5 feet, 6 inches,” according to Dr. Kenny Bahn, who said the patient reported symptoms of bloody diarrhea. Bahn treated the man with a single-treatment deworming medication.
In 2017 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked an increase in raw fish consumption to an increase of tapeworm infections. In addition to raw fish and seafood, people can contract tapeworms from beef, pork and wild game.
The man wrapped the moving worm around a cardboard toilet paper tube and took it to Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center in a plastic bag.
Measuring the specimen on the floor of the hospital “it stretched a whopping 5 feet, 6 inches,” according to Dr. Kenny Bahn, who said the patient reported symptoms of bloody diarrhea. Bahn treated the man with a single-treatment deworming medication.
In 2017 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked an increase in raw fish consumption to an increase of tapeworm infections. In addition to raw fish and seafood, people can contract tapeworms from beef, pork and wild game.
