Sentences with phrase «called whipworms»
They are called whipworms because their long neck next to their short fat body looks like a whip and a whip handle.
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About half the world's population (over 3 billion people) are in infected with at least one of the three worms forming what Columbia University parasitologist Dickson Despommier calls the «unholy trinity» — large roundworm, hookworm and whipworm.
The Whipworm parasite, called Trichuris vulpis, lives in the caecum (a large pouch at the beginning of the large intestine) of dogs.
The scientific name for the Whipworm we encounter in our area is called Trichuris.