Toxic Worm From The South Pacific Showing Up Around Tampa Bay
There’s a worm that’s been spotted around Tampa Bay that you need to know about. Don’t touch it. A toxic slime on these New Guineau worms can cause an allergic reaction.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – MAY 1: A petri dish containing C. elegans nemotodes, or round worms, is prepared for examination by project scientists May 1, 2003 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The worms were found alive last week in a biological container that was among the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia recovered in East Texas. The worms are descendants of those that were part of an experiment that flew on Columbia’s last mission before the spacecraft broke up on reentry February 1, killing all seven astronauts. (Photo by Volker Kern/NASA/Getty Images)
Volker Kern/NASA/Getty ImagesThere's a worm that's been spotted around Tampa Bay that you need to know about. Don't touch it. A toxic slime on these New Guineau worms can cause an allergic reaction.
The worm made its way from the South Pacific to Miami. It has been known to carry parasites too. They say you can pour boiling water on them if you see one to kill it. But use a plastic bag to pick it up.
