Worms in red blood cells , and they ban dewormer

a reply to: anonentity

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originally posted by: rickymouse

originally posted by: butcherguy

originally posted by: 1947boomer

originally posted by: rickymouse
I wouldn't think that a worm could be small enough to be living inside a red blood cell. They are really tiny.

They couldn’t. That’s why this story is probably bogus.

Leptospirosis spirochete could fit inside a red blood cell, look at the size.
Lepto
Red blood cell diameter

But those would be bacteria, not actually worms. Bacteria can be long and slender but are single celled microbes, worms are multicellular. It may be that someone called them worms when they were just wormlike organisms....that would be more of a bacterial or fungal infection of the blood cells. Bacteria are actually often parasites, that part is correct. The parasite that causes Malaria is a bacteria.

Since she did nothing more than view them through a microscope, I believe that the term ‘worm’ is just descriptive. Spirochetes look like worms when viewed through a microscope.