DISEASE OF THE WEEK: TAPEWORM.(Features)

From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: December 31, 1997 | Copyright information

Taeniasis is caused by taeniae, more commonly known as tapeworms.

The worms are designed to offer as large an absorbing surface as possible to food passing down the intestine.

So they are flat, white and long - up to 40 feet, (12 metres) like a piece of tape.

Each has a tiny head, with suckers - and sometimes with hooklets - to cling to the bowel wall.

Segments are produced from the head and gradually get bigger, developing eggs the furt...

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