Tambura's Guinea Worms
Here is another big bad worm for you! This worm measures in at around two-feet long. And speaking of feet, this worm chooses to make its home one of your legs. When they choose to make a break for it and leave their comfy home in your leg, they leave though a blister they make in the bottom of your foot. It takes a few days for them to completely leave the body, so you wont have to rush to say goodbye to your worm companion.
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Tapeworms
Tapeworms are eyeless, mouthless creatures that live in your intestines. They grow to about 60 feet and are made up of thousands of segments. There are no mommy or daddy worms; these worms have their own male and female sex organs, so they can reproduce by themselves.
Filarial Worms
These little worms cause elephantiasis and can cause the scrotum to swell up so big that it could fit in a wheel barrow and become extremely painful. Fun right? I think not.
Okay, newsflash! Parasites don't only live in Tambura! They all over, probably in more places than you think. There are leaf-shaped flukes that invade the liver and blood. there are single-celled parasites that cause malaria and other diseases. How about some statistics? Over 1.4 billion people carry the snake-like roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides in their intestines. 1.3 billion
So I am kind of scared for my life right now.This is very interesting about the amout of people actually carrying these little creatures yet very VERY disturbing.I want to live in a bubble now.
ReplyDelete:0 <-That is my reaction to that picture! That is truly horrifying. I would be so scared to see that happen to ANYONE! I can't believe that the Guinea worms are 2 feet long. That is crazy! I wonder how it feels for them to be in your skin and how it feels when they come out...
ReplyDeleteSarah darling, this stuff is icky! I couldn't look at that picture! My goodness, I don't know how you can read that book, but you make it sound really interesting!
ReplyDeleteThat’s just gross! :p
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