Hi, Can someone help me identify these worms? Are they just good old earthworms? They seemed to be quite happy and alive in the water when I extracted them from the pool pump.
A couple years ago we came home from vacation to find animal remains in our pool. We had someone identify the bones as likely a raccoon. Since then I have been worried about the very unlikely situation that we had a parasitic raccoon roundworm (baylisascaris procyonis) that apparently can cause severe issues in humans.![Face screaming in fear :scream: 😱](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png)
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A couple years ago we came home from vacation to find animal remains in our pool. We had someone identify the bones as likely a raccoon. Since then I have been worried about the very unlikely situation that we had a parasitic raccoon roundworm (baylisascaris procyonis) that apparently can cause severe issues in humans.
![Face screaming in fear :scream: 😱](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png)
![PXL_20240406_200035420.jpg PXL_20240406_200035420.jpg](https://www.troublefreepool.com/data/attachments/297/297752-0734488134d2aae93cfb408d026b7064.jpg)
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![PXL_20240406_201031861.jpg PXL_20240406_201031861.jpg](https://www.troublefreepool.com/data/attachments/297/297754-5dfa357996fd72ea5cd7f89628a22d57.jpg)