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MAN DIES AFTER CONTRACTING CANCER FROM A TAPEWORM

A 41-year-old Colombian man died recently after contracting cancer from a tapeworm. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, the worm, which had the HIV virus, passed it on to the man, causing this death on the third day of diagnosis. The tapeworm is an intestinal flatworm belonging to the cestoda type, usually white, […]