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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.
Tapeworms can survive for up to 25 years in humans. Their eggs are excreted in faeces and can survive on vegetation, where they are then consumed by cattle or pigs, or passed on to humans. Symptoms: nausea, vomiting, inflammation of the intestine, diarrhoea, weight loss, dizziness, fits, malnutrition.