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Photo by GarrettSmith
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Description:

Parasite living in a pig heart

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Scott Frazier
Brings to mind "heartworms" (Dirofilaria immitis) but this these parasitic roundworms usually found in dog & cats (and other carnivores)
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PublishedJuly 16, 2011

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