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I just discovered a (only one) worm on my Tortoise fecal matter. We got rather scared, mostly after reading about it in your web site. What should we do to cure it? Is it suffering? We got our tortoise 3 month ago and is quiet small. We clean the terrarium often and give vitamins to it with its food. We also give it a bath almost everyday. Can this sickness be contagious for us? Let us know what to do

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Some parasites in reptiles are quite contagious infecting humans easily. Mostly the parasites cause disease in the tortoises -especially when beeing fed a diet different from the one in the natural environment. Juvenile tortoises are fragile when it comes to living with parasites. I think you should have done a test on a fresh feacal sample from the tortoise. Then you can have the tortoises treated in the safest and most effective way.