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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Canadians say they contracted parasitic hookworms on beach

A young Canadian couple who recently returned from holiday in the Dominican Republic are warning vacationers not to get the 'sand between your toes' after picking up some nasty parasites.

Katie Stephens, 22, and Eddie Zytner, 25 said that their feet became noticeably itchy in the middle of their week-long getaway to the Caribbean earlier this month after strolling the beaches of the IFA Villas Bavaro Resort in Punta Cana.

'[We] found that we were scratching our feet quite a bit,' Stephens told CTV News on Friday, adding that they had heard about sand fleas and 'kind of assumed it was that at first.'

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why anyone would go to that and those other 3rd World S-Holes is the mystery. They should be thanking God worms is all that happened.

Anonymous said...

Trouble with going to 3rd world countries is they don't always have sewage treatment plants and you take your chances when you get in the water or sit out on the beach. Traveler beware(kind of like swimming in the Wicomico river).

Anonymous said...

3:01, get out of the basement much? you sound like a real world traveler!

Anonymous said...

Punta cana is the rape capital that's why you don't leave the resort or pass out alone. Read and research expand your mind it's ok.

Anonymous said...

You can get this in OC too!

Anonymous said...

Hey hey hey, they've been to Crisfield before

Anonymous said...

When I think eastern shore I think well traveled