Infested! Living With Parasites | movie | 2014 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

Dr Michael Mosley explores the bizarre and fascinating world of parasites by turning his body into a living laboratory a | dG1fb2ticFR3SFp0YW8

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00:00and perhaps the strangest example of extreme specialization turned up here at

00:08the Horniman Museum in South London one morning someone brought them something

00:14they'd found in their fish supper they basically bought us someone's evening

00:21meal on the plate so it was a cooked fish and that the person had started to

00:26eat halfway through their meal they discovered this inside the fish's mouth it was enough to put

00:35anyone off their food so this is Simon their exit you are the fish tongue louse and it has a really

00:42unusual parasitic lifestyle it enters the gills of the fish and then attaches to the tongue-like

00:49structure of the fish and kind of clings on and pierces the tongue structure with its big claws

00:55and then basically feeds off the blood of the tongue which eventually just becomes

01:00quite shriveled and ends up being at just a little stump that the fish tongue louse then

01:05moves further into the mouth and basically starts to live as as if it was the tongue of the fish

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