A man in China’s habit for eating raw beef caught up with him, when he was forced to get treatment for a massive tapeworm. Apparently the parasite had been in his stomach for atleast two years, causing a multitude of stomach aches, chronic anemia, and more.
When his symptoms progressed to vomiting, rapid weight loss, loss of appetite, and worsening stomach pains his doctors checked his stool, which turned up positive with the larvae of the tapeworm.
The 38-year-old was given treatments to flush the parasite from his body, which revealed a 20-foot-long (six meters) tapeworm.
It is believed to be a Taenia saginata, a beef-eating tapeworm, because the unidentified man frequently would consume beef raw. The tapeworm likely entered his system as eggs or larvae when he ate contaminated meat.