Now this is a whole new level of ****ed up:
"We were amazed when we found this new type of disease — tapeworms growing inside a person, essentially getting cancer, that spreads to the person, causing tumors," said study researcher Dr. Atis Muehlenbachs, a staff pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch (IDPB).
The cells, when examined under a microscope, acted like cancer cells — they multiplied quickly and crowded together. But the cells didn't appear to be human, they were 10 times smaller than human cancer cells.
After a number of tests, the researchers found DNA from a type of tapeworm called H. nana in the man's tumor.
The patient died just 72 hours after researchers determined that the tumors were caused by H. nana.
H. nana is the most common tapeworm in humans, infecting up to 75 million people worldwide at any given time.
http://news.yahoo.com/man-dies-tapew...145539983.html
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