Girl has 8ft 6in long tapeworm removed from eating sashimi

Doctors in Taiwan have reportedly found a tapeworm measuring 2.6 metres (8ft 6in) inside a girl who loves eating sashimi, a Japanese dish made of slices of raw fish.

A family member of the eight-year-old child said she experienced itchiness in her rectum after eating the dish at a restaurant in Taipei, a doctor from the Tri-Service General Hospital told Apple Daily. 

The girl is said to have recovered after surgeons removed the tapeworm from her rear and prescribed drugs to her.

Wang Zhijian, a paediatrician from the hospital, told Apple Daily that the unnamed girl had contracted a type of tapeworm called diphyllobothrium latum. 

The diphyllobothrium latum is the largest human tapeworm and is also known as fish or broad tapeworm, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The best 1st birthday present ever ! Infant girls conjoined at the Head ...

Conjoined twins have gotten the best present for their first birthday, the gift of life.

Little Erin and Abby Delaney, who are turning one-year-old in July, were successfully separated in an 11-hour surgery. The girls were joined at the top of their heads, a condition called craniopagus. It is the rarest type of conjoined twins.  

Erin and Abby, who are from North Carolina, were in excellent care. Their surgery took place on June 7 at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which has done 23 separations.