Taenia saginata
The beef tapeworm.
The most common of the big tapeworms that parasitizes people, contracted from infected raw or rare beef.
Can grow to be 12-25 feet (3.6-7.5 m) long in the human intestine.
Also known as the African tapeworm.
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