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Tapeworms: Biology and Human Impact

Tapeworms are flat, parasitic worms that attach to the intestinal walls of humans or animals using hooks and suckers. They absorb nutrients through their body walls, allowing some species to grow over 18 meters long. Tapeworms do not usually kill their hosts but can cause weight loss and weakness by consuming the host's food. Symptoms in infected humans may include nausea, weakness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, fatigue, and vitamin deficiencies.

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Tapeworms: Biology and Human Impact

Tapeworms are flat, parasitic worms that attach to the intestinal walls of humans or animals using hooks and suckers. They absorb nutrients through their body walls, allowing some species to grow over 18 meters long. Tapeworms do not usually kill their hosts but can cause weight loss and weakness by consuming the host's food. Symptoms in infected humans may include nausea, weakness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, fatigue, and vitamin deficiencies.

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By: Bailey Fry


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There are a few members of the class Cestoda that just happen to be long, flat, parastitic worms. These worms have a head called a scolex, also there are a few suckers and a ring of hooks. These hooks and suckers are used to attach onto the intestinal wall of humans or animals. Tapeworms rarely kill their hosts but they do eat a lot of the humans food, which is an explanation as to why their hosts lose a lot of weight and become weaker. Some tapeworms cause signs and symptoms such as: These parasitic worms gather their food by absorbing it through their body walls; they can soon grow to a very impressive size. The adult mal tapeworms have been found to grow over 18 meters. An interesting fact about tapeworms is that they have both male and femal reproductive organs. A proglittide may have 1000,000 eggs, these grow for a long time then burrow into the muscle tissue of the intermediate host and create dormant protective stage called a cyst.A fully developed poroglttide may burst inside either the hosts intestine or after it has been passed out of the hosts body through poop.

Nausea
Weakness Diarrhea Abdominal Pain Hunger or loss of appetite

Fatigue

Vitamin and

If a human eats raw or incompletely cooked meat

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