Suit accuses restaurant of giving man big tapeworm

A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a Chicago restaurant. In the lawsuit filed Monday, Anthony Franz said he ordered salmon salad for lunch from Shaw's Crab House in 2006 and fell violently ill. He later passed the giant parasite, which a pathologist determined came from undercooked fish, such as salmon.

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Anthony Franz says an undercooked salmon salad gave him a 9-foot-tapeworm, and in August he sued the Chicago restaurant that served it to him.

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A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a Chicago restaurant.

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A human body is not the individual organism its proud owner may suppose but rather a walking zoo of microbes and parasites, each exploiting a special ecological niche in its comfortable, temperature-controlled conveyance.

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Darwin gave a lot of thought to the strangest creatures on this planet, wondering how they had evolved from less strange ancestors.

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