A 4-year-old boy with a history of stomach pain, vomiting and abdominal distention eventually landed on the operating table where surgeons manually removed dozens of worms that had been living in his intestines. If an infected person defecates outside, or if the feces of an infected person are used in fertilizer, eggs are deposited on the soil. Other symptoms may present as a cough due to the migration of the worms through the body. It can be treated with medication, but in the boy’s case, surgeons decided to operate. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe authors noted that the boy’s case points to a larger public health issue in Cameroon, where deworming programs are affected by lack of funding and access in high-risk areas.

Source: Fox News June 10, 2019 17:48 UTC