From: moe@null.com   
      
   On 4/29/2014 11:09 AM, coopthewaste@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, April 23, 1996 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Paul Seed wrote:   
   >> Perhaps somebody can confirm/deny this story, which my sister   
   >> told me several years ago having "read it somewhere".   
   >>   
   >> Apparently the treatment for a patient with tapeworm is to go   
   >> into hospital, lie down and take no food for several days. A ripe   
   >> and fragrant banana is placed on the patient's chest, which   
   >> entices the starving tapeworm up from the gut. The creature   
   >> climbs up the oesophagus and pokes its head out of the mouth/nose   
   >> of its unfortunate host, whereupon the attending medical staff   
   >> grab it, wrap it around a pencil and pull the whole thing out   
   >> very slowly (trying to avoid breaking it and leaving half inside   
   >> the patient).   
   >>   
   >> This all sounds like a scare story to me; in the days of modern   
   >> medicine I can't believe it's true, but who knows? AFU readers,   
   >> surely...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> - Paul "Sure hope he starves before I do (and that he likes   
   >> bananas)" Seed   
   >>   
   >> (Opinions and hokum expressed herein are mine alone)   
   >   
   > Cestode Infections are treated by chemotherapy (medication) and/or   
   > surgical procedures depending on the species of cestode, severity   
   > of the infection, and migration from intestine to organs, muscles,   
   > and brain.   
   >   
      
   Guinea worms are removed by slowing winding the emergent worm around a   
   stick - but guinea worms emerge from blisters on the victim's body:   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis   
      
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