Worms (mostly parasitic)

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Worms (mostly parasitic)

• Or the reasons you need to make sure you wash
  your hands and cook your meat ?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Eelworm (Round)

• Parasitic
• Tiny, threadlike parasites in plants that attacks
  leaves, stems and roots
• Can survive very cold, very dry conditions

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Filaria (Round)

• Parasitic
• Caused by a mosquito in tropics and subtropics
• Infects blood and causes swelling of limbs

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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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