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My mum took out a snail from the vegetables and she just wash her hands with water then started washing fruits and cooking will i eat any parasites?
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No: Snails are key in the life-cycle of schistosomes but you don't acquire them except in particular places and the danger is contact with the water. It's not carried on food.
Answered 11/28/2017
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