This
species of tapeworm sounds like I wouldn't want it.(Well not that I would want a tapeworm.)
It's called Diphyllobothrium latum, the
broad fish tapeworm.
This is the largest tapeworm found in
humans growing up to 18 m, or 60 feet in length. Usualy traveling through three
hosts throughout it's
life cycle:
- a microscopic freshwater
crustacean,
Cyclops
- a
fish that eats the Cyclops.
- then a HUMAN! (usualy through
Sushi, or
sashimi)
Every day a single
worm may
discharge up to 1 million
fertilized eggs into it's host's
feces.