How can people become infected with tapeworms?
How can people become infected with tapeworms?
It is important to note here that there are many types of tapeworms. There are some livestock tapeworms that encyst in the muscles of these animals and infect people when they eat the undercooked meat. These are different than the tapeworms your cat or dog may get. Your pet's tapeworms are only infective when they go through the intermediate host and the only documented cases that I am aware of were cases in which tapeworm infected fleas were ingested by the human patient. Thus, flea control is extremely important to prevent human tapeworm infection.
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