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I didn't know I'd been hosting a parasite for years - until the most intense pain of my life - Yahoo

Published by BBC News By Craig Duggan - BBC Wales · 2 August 2026 at 23:10
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I didn't know I'd been hosting a parasite for years - until the most intense pain of my life - Yahoo
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A farmer living with slow-growing cysts caused by a tapeworm says he had no idea anything was wrong.

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