The worms are designed to offer as large an absorbing surface as possible to food passing down the intestine.
So they are flat, white and long - up to 40 feet, (12 metres) like a piece of tape.
Each has a tiny head, with suckers - and sometimes with hooklets - to cling to the bowel wall.
Segments are produced from the head and gradually get bigger, developing eggs the further they get from the head.
Mature segments are crammed full of eggs and are constantly splitting off to be discharged in the stools.
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No, stomach acids do not kill tapeworms. Tapeworms are adapted to the environment of the alimentary canal; if they were not, there would be no tapeworms.
Human tapeworms can be between 6 and 25 feet long. Some tapeworms that infest other hosts can be 50, even 100 feet long. I'm almost sure that this is correct.
Tapeworms are a kind of flatworm. Most flatworms are not tapeworms.
Tapeworms are a group of parasitic worms that live in the intestinal tracts of some animals. Several different species of tapeworms can infect humans.
There are many good treatments for tapeworms. The main treatment is oral medications. These are medications that are toxic to the adult tapeworm, such as Praziquantel.
Tapeworms are of the class Cestoda of the phylum Platyhelminthes.
Humans get tapeworms from dogs when they jump from hosts (the dog) to us (the humans) and for more information please check out this site. Also from eating some meats from animals that may have had it and not cooking it enough to kill and get rid of them!! http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5164980_do-humans-tapeworms-dogs.html
Yes tapeworms are in cookiedough but you have a very small chance of getting tapeworms from eating it...
TAPEWORMS
No. tapeworms are pest to humans.
it could be ticks, tapeworms, roundworms, etc.
Because of environmental contamination. Tapeworms shed eggs into the environment and those eggs then turn into the next generation of tapeworms. Treatment of tapeworms with medication only kill the adult tapeworms currently residing in that animal, but the environment and other animals remain a source of eggs and adult tapeworms.