Canadians say they contracted parasitic hookworms on beach

A young Canadian couple who recently returned from holiday in the Dominican Republic are warning vacationers not to get the 'sand between your toes' after picking up some nasty parasites.

Katie Stephens, 22, and Eddie Zytner, 25 said that their feet became noticeably itchy in the middle of their week-long getaway to the Caribbean earlier this month after strolling the beaches of the IFA Villas Bavaro Resort in Punta Cana.

'[We] found that we were scratching our feet quite a bit,' Stephens told CTV News on Friday, adding that they had heard about sand fleas and 'kind of assumed it was that at first.'

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