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207.WHAT IS A TAPEWORM?

This certainly isn’t a pleasant subject, but many people suffer from tapeworm and so there is great curiosity about it. A kind of flatworm, the tapeworm is an intestinal parasite.

This means that it lives in the digestive tract of another animal, called the host, and is fed by food which the host has partly digested.