EDMONTON — Cassidy Armstrong says she washes her hands, cleans her vegetables and doesn’t own any pets. Armstrong had surgery in November for what she thought was a rare, terminal cancer. She found out a day or two later that the grapefruit-sized lump doctors had removed from her liver during a four-hour operation was a cyst created by a rare parasite. What you have is not cancer ... What we think you have is this very rare parasite“It is absolutely new,” he said. “Up until a few years ago, that tapeworm was very rare in Canada and we hadn’t heard of a case in humans,” said Klein.

Source: National Post January 26, 2020 16:07 UTC