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Tapeworms do not have intestinal tracts: they absorb partially digested substances from their host through their skin. Adult tapeworms can live in the digestive tracts of a variety of hosts such as humans, pigs, cows, dogs, cats and fish. Most tapeworms have both male and female reproductive organs, and reproduce and fertilize their own eggs.
1 Adult tapeworms can measure more than 50 feet (15.2 meters) long and can survive as long as 30 years in a host. 2  Some tapeworms attach themselves to the walls of the intestines, where they cause irritation or mild inflammation, while others may pass through to your stool and exit your body. Ingestion of larvae cysts in meat or muscle tissue. 2  When an animal has a tapeworm infection, it has tapeworm larvae in its muscle tissue. 3  If you eat raw or undercooked meat from an infected animal, you ingest the larvae, which then develop into adult tapeworms in your intestines.