A Chinese man who visited his doctor after suffering from severe tummy ache was found to have a giant tapeworm growing inside his stomach - after years of gorging on raw beef.
The 38-year-old patient told medics in Shiyan, China he had been vomiting and losing weight at an alarming speed.
He told them he had endured “abdominal pain and chronic anaemia” over the previous two years.
Doctors described their initial physical examination of him as “largely unremarkable” - but they found a tapeworm’s egg in his stools.
They proceeded to gave him drugs until he eventually excreted the tapeworm - which measured a whopping 6.2 metres.
The 38-year-old patient told medics in Shiyan, China he had been vomiting and losing weight at an alarming speed.
He told them he had endured “abdominal pain and chronic anaemia” over the previous two years.
Doctors described their initial physical examination of him as “largely unremarkable” - but they found a tapeworm’s egg in his stools.
They proceeded to gave him drugs until he eventually excreted the tapeworm - which measured a whopping 6.2 metres.
