No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm ...

Doctors diagnose the infection with stool samples, and may request multiple samples over a few days. Medicines can treat it.

A man's fever and inability to pee turned out to be related to a large worm in his body ... Until 2019, around 37 cases of infections in humans by this particular species had been reported ...