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Worms (mostly parasitic)

Worms (mostly parasitic). Or the reasons you need to make sure you wash your hands and cook your meat . Fluke (Flat). Parasite Li ve in nearly every organ and blood Have suckers to attach to tissue Can get by eating infected meat Swim in water; attach and burrow through skin.

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Worms (mostly parasitic)

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  1. Worms (mostly parasitic) Or the reasons you need to make sure you wash your hands and cook your meat 

  2. Fluke (Flat) • Parasite • Live in nearly every organ and blood • Have suckers to attach to tissue • Can get by eating infected meat • Swim in water; attach and burrow through skin

  3. Tapeworm (Flat) • Parasitic • Live in intestines and absorbs host's food • Can also live in most organs including eyes, brain and heart • Head-like organ has hooks and suckers to attach • No mouth or intestines, but made of segments that are male and female • Can grow up to 30 feet • Causes stomach pain, diarrhea, and nausea

  4. Ribbon Worm (Round) • Parasitic • Slender, flattened body with long snout that has dagger-like stingers • Live in mostly oceans and feed on other worms and mollusks • Can grow up to 90 feet long

  5. Horsehair worm (Round) • Parasitic • Looks like a coiled horsehair • Lives in freshwater -invades insects • Matures and lives in water after being passed out of the host's body

  6. Eelworm (Round) • Parasitic • Tiny, threadlike parasites in plants that attacks leaves, stems and roots • Can survive very cold, very dry conditions

  7. Ascaris(Round) • Parasitic • Found in tropical regions with poor hygiene habits • Food contaminated with fecal matter is eaten; the worm goes into the host's intestines walls to the lungs, then to the respiratory tract where it is swallowed again • Causes pneumonia, abdominal pain and diarrhea

  8. Pinworm(Round) • Parasitic • Only 3/8 inches long, white body and pointed tail • Infects horses, rabbits, humans • Goes to the host's intestines and lays eggs around anus causing swelling • If swallowed, become adults in intestines • Can get under fingernails and in the clothing • 10 - 60% of children have at some time

  9. Trichina (Round) • Parasitic • Eat infected pork that is not cooked well • Gets into intestines, blood stream to other parts of the body causing swelling in muscles and bleeding under the skin • Causes diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever, headache, muscle pain

  10. Hookworm (Round) • Parasitic • Burrow through skin, usually bare feet or by eating infected food • Goes into the intestines; causes anemia, leg and stomach swelling, itchy hook-shaped patches on skin and leg and abdominal pain

  11. Vinegar Eel (Round) • Free living • Harmless when swallowed • Lives in non-pasteurized cider vinegar and feeds on fruit pulp and bacteria that produces vinegar from cider

  12. Filaria (Round) • Parasitic • Caused by a mosquito in tropics and subtropics • Infects blood and causes swelling of limbs

  13. Leech (Segmented) • Parasitic • Lives in damp places, streams, lakes and oceans • Blood sucker at each end - each with teeth • When attaches to host, gives off hirudia which prevents blood from clotting • Has light sensitive cells called "eyes"- sensitive to light, touch, temperature and moisture

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