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 foods have worms in them?
The top ten are: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)Cryptosporidium spp.News Article: “Top Ten” list of food-borne parasites released - FAO
What causes humans to have worms?
You get it by eating infected meat, especially pork, that's raw or undercooked. When a person eats infected meat, stomach acid dissolves cysts in the meat to release worm larvae. The worms go to the intestine, grow up, mate, and lay eggs. After hatching, young worms go through the blood to the muscles.
What vegetables give worms?
The most common form of brain tapeworm is the pork tapeworm known as Taeni solium. It is a common pest feed on vegetables like cabbage, kale, cauliflower and broccoli.It is a ribbon-like worm, which when ingested, attaches itself to the walls of the intestines and hatches eggs and becomes larva.
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