DES MOINES (AP) — The medical director for the Iowa Department of Public Health is warning against the tapeworm diet.
In her weekly email to public health workers around Iowa, Dr. Patricia Quinlisk recounted a recent incident:
A physician sought the department’s help for a patient who said she’d swallowed a tapeworm she’d bought over the Internet. The woman was hoping the parasite would help her lose weight.
Quinl...
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