eating raw or undercooked beef, pork or freshwater fish (like salmon or trout) containing baby worms – more common in parts of the world with poor food hygiene standards.
What foods cause worms in humans?
There are several kinds of tapeworms that can find their way into the body through food. 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.
What foods can contain worms?
Taenia solium (pork tapeworm): In pork. Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid worm or dog tapeworm): In fresh produce. Echinococcus multilocularis (a type of tapeworm): In fresh produce. Toxoplasma gondii (protozoa): In meat from small ruminants, pork, beef, game meat (red meat and organs)
What vegetables give worms?
While most veggies have them, cabbage and cauliflower are specially notorious of harboring them. These worms are so small that they cannot be seen with naked eyes as they are hidden inside the layers of cabbage or cauliflower. They even survive on high temperatures because eggs of these worms are hard-shelled.
What causes a human to get worms?
Worms are mainly spread in small bits of poo from people with a worm infection. Some are caught from food. You can get infected by: touching objects or surfaces with worm eggs on them – if someone with worms doesn't wash their hands.
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