Doctors were shocked this week when they found a 59-foot long tapeworm in a Thai man's rectum.
The 67-year-old patient visited the hospital, in Nong Khai province, Thailand, complaining of stomach pains and flatulence.
He was unaware of any problems and a stool sample was sent to medics at the Parasitic Disease Research Centre, in neighbouring Nakhon Ratchasima province.
There, lab tests showed it contained 28 eggs.
The man was given deworming medicine before the giant parasite oozed out of his rectum the next day on March 20.
Footage shows astonished medics unfurling the mammoth 59-foot-long