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. Symptoms can be nonexistent: People can live with a tapeworm and not know for months or even years.
What food is tapeworm most common in?
Meat Is to Blame Tapeworms get into your body when you eat raw or undercooked meat. Beef tapeworms are rare in the U.S., but they can get into the food supply when people live close to cattle and conditions aren't clean. You're more likely to get tapeworms from undercooked pork in the U.S.
What is the most common way to get a tapeworm?
The flat, segmented worms live in humans and animals. They can live for decades inside a host. The adult tapeworms live mainly in their host's intestines but tapeworm larva can travel to other parts of the body. The most common way people get tapeworms is by eating raw or undercooked meat from an affected animal.
Can vegetables have tapeworms?
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.
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