20 Horrific Parasites That Are Actual Haunting Nightmares

Parasites actively prey upon any instance where cleanliness is lacking. Cleanliness is something that so many people take pride in. For the most part, people want to be as clean as possible and keep their body as well as it can be. But some people don’t understand the importance of washing your vegetables thoroughly, or the importance of checking the temperature of meat with an actual thermometer. These mistakes happen so often, and the price to be paid from them is to have a little friend living inside your body. This is insanely disgusting, and here are 20 parasites that may be living inside you.

1. Trichinella spiralis is found in undercooked pork and other live game.

2. Taenia solium is found in undercooked pork and feeds on your brain.

3. The Ascaris lumbricoides is found in unclean water and unwashed fruits and vegetables.

4. Giardia intestinalis live in your intestines and cause extreme discomfort, they are found in unclean water.

5. Entamoeba histolytica is found in undercooked meat and unclean water, they cause serious problems in your gut and heart.

6. Necator americanus live in contaminated soil, and can live in unclean fruits and vegetables.

7. Also known as the old hookworm, the ancylostoma duodenale lives in infected soil.

8. This is an intestinal parasite, the strongyloides stercoralis lives on undercooked meat and unclean veggies.

9. The diphyllobothrium latum lives in fish, no more sushi for us.

10. Taenia saginata is related to the pork tapeworm but lives in beef rather than pork.

Honestly though, there are so many genuinely terrifying deep sea creatures out there. It kind of checks out though, with so much of the ocean yet to be explored.

11. These little guys lives in undercooked shell fish, the clonorchis sinensis.

12. The fasciola hepatica lives in aquatic plants, and fish.

13. Schistosoma live in ponds and streams.

14. The echinococcus granulosus attacks your spine but is harder to come by because it lives in infected animals.

15. The pinworm is passed through unwashed hands, they cause extreme itch and discomfort in human privates.

16. The balanoglossus species is found in infected animals like domesticated dogs or cats.

17. Trichomonas vaginalis are passed through intimate contact and can cause severe irritation.

18. This person’s eye while infected with acanthamoeba keratitis, the single cell organism attacks the cornea.

19. The wuchereria bancrofti is most often passed through infected mosquitos. Maybe the worst of the horrific parasites.

20. Toxoplasma Gondii live in raw meat and can crawl their way to your brain.