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Can vegetables have tapeworms?

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Vegetables, fresh fruit and mushrooms represent a potential source of infection by a variety of pathogens including the tapeworms, Echinococcus granulosus and E.multilocularis. The sexually reproducing forms of both of these worms use various canines as their hosts. 30 сент. 2016 г.


What foods can contain tapeworms?

Tapeworm Most of the tapeworms that affect humans come from eating undercooked animal products — particularly beef and pork — as well as contaminated fish that's raw or undercooked.

Can you get worms from vegetables?

Studies have shown that Ascaris lumbricoides, Cryptosporidium spp., Entamoeba histolytica, Enterobius vermicularis, Fasciola spp., Giardia intestinalis, hookworm, Hymenolepis spp., Taenia spp., Trichuris trichiura, and Toxocara spp., can infect humans who consume contaminated, uncooked, or improperly washed vegetables ...

Can you get tapeworms from gardening?

Soil-transmitted helminths live in the intestine and their eggs are passed in the feces of infected persons. If an infected person defecates outside (near bushes, in a garden, or field) or if the feces of an infected person are used as fertilizer, eggs are deposited on soil.

What food is tapeworm most common in?

You can be infected with tapeworm larvae by eating raw or undercooked meat, such as beef, pork, or fish. You can consume tapeworm eggs in infected water or by accidentally coming into contact with dog faeces, for example by handling an object, food or water that has been contaminated.

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