Horsehair worms in humans occur in most rare condition when they ingest these worms into their body. However, they can only infect a smaller host population, thereby the effect being nominal. To ensure a proper lifecycle, these worms have to infect the long lived invertebrates. The fact is these worms can only parasitize invertebrates only, most significantly the insects. However, there have always been controversies and myths that these worms have a parasitic effect on the animals and human beings as well.
Horsehair worms in humans have been rarely found, and are more prominently present in bigger insects, soil and cabbage plant. The modern technology has also proven it. Horsehair in humans is just a mere myth, and there are proven facts that these roundworms cannot parasitize vertebrates essentially. There have always been some myths about these worms, especially about their emergence and existing in human beings, the fact being these worms are most harmless to animals and human beings. Horsehair worms in humans are rarely found, and resemble the ‘Gordian Knot’ together in a mass of hundred or more, especially found after a rainfall, in the freshwater pools or stored water. These worms are easy to identify with their slender, very long size, and brownish-black or yellowish-tan in color.
These long thread-like worms resemble the hair of a horse tail, and are mostly found in cabbage plants, swimming pools, bird baths, pet dishes, garden soil, unhygienic toilets, and essentially in body cavities of various insects like cockroach, grasshopper, crickets, millipedes, beetles, snails, centipedes, and many others. Horsehair worms in humans have very rare chances to parasitize vertebrates, especially human beings.
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