STORM2K

I once watched a special on worms in the human body. Some were up to a foot long. How would we know if we had those creatures in us right now? Some were referred to tape worms, I think.

I don't want to think about that.

Yuck...

You guys are no fun.

Well if I had a worm like that I'd prepare to die.

I will have to do some research on it tomorrow.

These types of worms, called parasites, are usually from eating contaminated food or water. They can be very harmful and some could leave you disabled for life or even kill you.

Yeah, but aren't they good for a weight-loss regimen?

MULTI CELLULAR PARASITES are so large they can usually be seen with the naked eye. Tapeworms, for instance, can reach a length of 6 meters (20 feet).


http://www.parasitecleanse.com/gallery.htm

EWWWWWWWWWWWW...I just lost my appetite for that gator tail, posted about in the "gator thread".

lol..... well, if I have no weight loss, guess I have no worms.

I remember both my parents got tapeworms when I was a kid. My dad kept his preserved in a jar for years - it was about 10 feet long. Definitely a great thing to gross out your friend with.

That would be cool in the family room

gross fact- some worms can get into your body by penetrating through the skin on the bottom of your foot by simply walking on the beach. i forgot what they're called though.

wxmann_91 wrote:These types of worms, called parasites, are usually from eating contaminated food or water. They can be very harmful and some could leave you disabled for life or even kill you.

There are MORE worms....this is why I "DO NOT" nor will I "EVER" eat "PORK".......being a meat cutter for 20 years ( I cannot tell you how BAD pork smells when you break the vacumm seal on the pork) AND seeing a program not too long on PORK .......pigs have "tricanocous" (I think that's how it's spelled ) and they LIVE in PORK and when you EAT pork, no matter HOW HOT you get the meat, these little WORMS invade your intestinal tract and LIVE there for EVER

Dennis

Here it is......I was CLOSE on the spelling

Trichinosis





Definition

Trichinosis is a disease caused by a roundworm (nematode) called Trichinella spiralis. An individual worm of this species is called a trichina, from the Greek word meaning "hairlike." Trichinae can be readily avoided by proper handling and cooking of certain meats, particularly pork products.

Description

The life cycle of T. spiralis includes several different stages. The adult trichina lives in the intestinal lining of such meat-eating animals as swine, bears, walrus, and rodents. After mating, the male worm dies while the female goes on to produce the offspring.

Roundworms have a stage of development called the embryonic stage, which in many species occurs after birth. In trichinae, however, this embryonic stage occurs within the uterus of the female, so the offspring that are ultimately discharged into the host's intestinal lining are in the larval second stage of life. These larvae--about 1500 from each female worm--travel through the circulatory system to the heart, then through the blood vessels leading to striated muscle (the muscle of the skeletal system and the heart). Most larvae that cannot find suitable locations in striated muscle will die.

Those larvae that reach striated muscle will grow to a length of about one millimeter, coil themselves, and enclose themselves within a protective wall called a cyst. This process is referred to as encysting. The worms in the cysts can live for up to ten years in this form.

A pig that has been infected with T. spiralis, then, has thousands of cysts lying dormant within its muscles-- the very muscles that humans look forward to consuming in the form of pork chops, ham, barbecued ribs, etc. When humans sit down to a delicious meal of undercooked, trichina-infected pig dinner, they are ingesting T. spiralis cysts. The cyst walls are broken down by the usual process of food digestion in the stomach, allowing the larvae to escape into the new host's intestines. There the larvae mature to become adult worms, capable of producing a new crop of larvae. When these new larvae hatch, they begin their migration throughout the human host's bloodstream to his or her muscles, where they live for a short while before encysting.

I've heard of ascaris and dracunculiasis (also known as the "Guinea Worm")... they're very, very nasty.