A Mystery Worm Infection in Vietnam Shows a New Species Can Live in Humans
The mystery over a insect infestation found in a Vietnamese military personnel last year has been solved , though not without adding another creepy wrinkle to the tale . The worms inside the humankind were n’t the Guinea dirt ball ( Dracunculus medinensis ) , a now - rarified parasite on the threshold of obliteration , as originally retrieve . Instead , they were a related and unknown metal money of Dracunculus likely aboriginal to the area ....