"Man with stomach pain excretes a 6.2 Metre tapeworm caused by his love of raw beef"

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Doctors treating a man with stomach pain were astonished to discover a huge tapeworm inside him that was more than 6.2 meters long.

The 38-year-old had gone to hospital after three days of vomiting and feeling weak.

There, he told doctors that over the past two years he had suffered from pain in his stomach and abdomen, loss of appetite, weight loss and long-term anaemia due to iron deficiency.

Medics from the Hubei University of Medicine, in Shiyan, China, examined him but found ‘nothing remarkable’, the New England Journal of Medicine reports.

But when they looked at his stools under a microscope they found an oncosphere – the egg of a tapeworm.

The man revealed he had a tendency to eat raw beef, which is a known cause of infection with such worms.