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Doctors Found a Parasite Eating a Man’s Liver. Then Traced How He Got It - Newsweek

Published by Newsweek By Melissa Fleur Afshar · 16 August 2026 at 11:15
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Doctors Found a Parasite Eating a Man’s Liver. Then Traced How He Got It - Newsweek
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The 41-year-old's liver was riddled with abscesses, and the trail back led through body lice and one undisclosed night.

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