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----------------------------------------------- Putting the “Ew!” in Museum Our reporter went to the Meguro Parasitological Museum and all we got was this tapeworm by, Kristin Abkemeier 28 February 2007 The delicate white streamers suspended in a jar of liquid looked like wispy bits of tissue paper in front of their royal blue backdrop. They could have been brushstrokes from Japanese ink paintings, irregular and organic, beautiful according to the Zen aesthetic of imperfection in nature. But these brushstrokes were parasites, Sparganum proliferum to be exact. Though these waterborne critters don’t disfigure their usual hosts of cats and dogs, when they infect humans the larvae form itchy, gravelly nodules right under the skin, giving a crunchy-peanut-butter look. And it gets worse: a larva can grow buds which then detach and migrate… http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/larve-and-mosquitoes-and-tapeworms-oh-my/
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