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Tapeworms are normally 3m to 5m in length, but it can become very large, over 20m in some situations

They can grow to around 30 feet in humans, perhaps more; filling the whole intestine.

The longest tape worm was 37 ft pulled from Sally Mae Wallace pulled from her mouth on September 5th 1991

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