“But it would certainly be an Asian house gecko if he’s from Queensland. “Ten days is a very short time for a larval parasite inside the gecko to get into the intestine, attach and grow,” Diane Barton told. Queensland father David Dowell who died 10 days after swallowing a gecko may have died from a parasitic tapeworm common in Asian house geckos rather than salmonella poisoning.ĭoctors have told Mr Dowell’s symptoms - a distended stomach, black urine and green bile - are more extreme than salmonella and evidence of an abdominal obstruction and liver failure.Īnd a taxonomist and ecologist who is an expert in Asian house gecko parasites says a tapeworm called Spirometra could be the culprit.
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