• Question: i certainly lost my appitite after look at pictures of tapeworm eggs but it mustve been worse looking at them up close

    Asked by to Ditte on 20 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Ditte Hedegaard answered on 20 Jun 2014:


      Hi antoniirose

      Yes it was pretty grim seeing those tapeworm eggs. After having received the liver from the hospital we noticed that a big cyst in it which was about the size of a tennis ball. I thought it was a cancer tumour, but when we cut in it some clear liquid came out and inside the cyst was about 50 small tapeworm eggs (a cyst with tapeworm eggs is also called a hydatid cyst. The eggs looked like these

      The tapeworm eggs have been send to a tapeworm expert who is going to find out which type of tapeworm it is, we are still waiting for a reply……

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