Resumen de Our mummy has a liver complaint
A 375-year-old mummified man discovered in South Korea had a parasitic liver infection, which he caught by eating raw shellfish--possibly on the basis of incorrect medical advice. The man, Jing Lee, died in 1642 at the age of 63 and was buried in what is now Cheongdo. His body was remarkably well preserved when archaeologists unearthed it in 2014. With permission from Jing Lee's descendants, a team led by Min Seo at Dankook University College of Medicine, South Korea, CT-scanned the mummy. This revealed a strange lump on the man's liver. The researchers removed the lump and found it contained golden-brown eggs, each roughly 85 micrometer long. They identified them as belonging to Paragonimus westermani, a parasitic fluke.
