4. Eggs
Eating eggs is another way to get tapeworm contamination. If you drink water or eat food that is contaminated with the fecal matter of an animal or person that is currently suffering from tapeworm contamination, you’ll end up getting these minuscule tapeworm eggs in your body.
For instance, a pig that has a tapeworm will release the eggs through fecal matter which then seeps into the soil. If this contaminated soil comes into contact with a water or food source, the food and water itself will become contaminated. You could then be infected if you eat something that came from this tainted source. Once the eggs make their way into your intestines, they will mature into larvae and then mature further into adulthood.
Even at the larvae stage, the tapeworms are mobile. If they manage to escape the boundaries within your intestines, they’ll lead to the formation of cysts in other areas within your body such as the liver and lungs.