3. Ingestion of larvae cysts in meat or muscle tissue
One of the more disturbing ways to get tapeworm contamination is by ingesting larvae. If an animal is suffering from tapeworm contamination, the female specimens will leave the larvae within the muscle tissue. If you proceed to consume this meat that was taken from an infected animal, you’ll inadvertently end up ingesting the larvae for yourself which will then grow into fully adult tapeworms within your intestines and continue the life cycle of their species by giving birth to more larvae.
The length of adult tapeworms could reach as long as 80 feet in some cases. They stay alive for as long as three decades within their host. Some of them even become attached to the wall within the intestines which can lead to inflammation and irritation. Others could pass through your stool whenever you poop and quietly leave your body.