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The Maine Center for Disease Control, the Animal Health Lab and UMaine Cooperative Extension, and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife advise people to wear latex or rubber gloves when field dressing game and thoroughly cook game meat, the article said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbangor.com\/news\/local-news\/908-moose-parasite-could-pose-harm-to-humans-and-dogs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 7 (WVII)<\/a> also carried a report on the parasite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. John Valley Times reported on the discovery through testing at the University of Maine Animal Health Laboratory of a tiny parasitic tapeworm that can exist in the lungs of moose and intestines of canines, both wild and domestic, which could expose humans to the parasite. Excessive lungworm presence can compromise the health of moose. 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