Doctors Remove Two 10cm Live Worms from Woman's Arm in China
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- Doctors in Shenzhen, China, removed two 10cm live sparganum worms from a woman's arm after a year-long lump growth.
- The parasite likely entered her body through contaminated food prepared on a shared chopping board.
KI-generierte Zusammenfassung
Warum es wichtig ist
A woman in southern China sought medical help for a lump that grew over a year, which doctors identified as two live 10cm sparganum worms.
Doctors in southern China had to remove two 10cm-long living worms from the arm of an anguished woman after she reported a big lump.
The woman, surnamed Wang, said the lump, which first appeared on her arm a year ago, got bigger and bigger. Eventually, it ballooned to the size of a quail egg.
Wang said the sharp pain from the swollen mass prompted her to seek medical treatment at Shenzhen People’s Hospital, in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, reported Shenzhen TV.
Doctors said the two worms taken out of Wang’s arm were sparganum, a type of parasite commonly found in the bodies of people with an unhealthy lifestyle.
Wang recalled that she often cooked frogs at home, killing them on the same chopping board that she used to prepare cold dishes.
According to the doctors at the hospital, Wang’s kitchen knife and chopping board might have been polluted by sparganum cysts.
As she prepared the cold dishes on the board, the cysts were probably attached to the chopped food and as a result had entered people’s bodies.
Offene Fragen
- How long were the worms in her arm before removal?
- Were there any other health complications?
