Footages showing doctors removing worms from a patient’s intestine has gone viral.
In the video, the intestinal tissue is filled with Ascaris lumbricoides, a large parasitic worm that causes ascariasis in humans.
Ascaris lumbricoides is the most common parasitic worm in humans, with an estimated 807 million to 1.2 billion people infected worldwide.
The roundworm primarily infects humans through the fecal-oral route.
