Tapeworm Research Paper

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The tapeworm is a pathogen. This pathogen is called a tapeworm because of its structure. Its body structure is as thin as tape and looks as if it was a worm. Considered by its name tape worm. It has sucking grooves on its head to cling to your intestines. The tapeworm has a reproductive system that is a male and female reproductive system. The tape worm can grow up to 50 feet long if it has lived in its host for 20 years. It eats the food you eat so that it can survive. The tapeworm can be transmitted to you if u eat meat not cooked properly that was infected with a tapeworm or has larva in it. The tapeworm may also take over your nervous
System. When its larva moves through the organs the organs will possibly ache. There are ways you can get …show more content…

It was used by a pageant girl’s mother and made her eat tapeworms so that the girl could be skinner. The girl had told the police when she had found and researched about what she has been eating. There has been medical records of tapeworms in the human brain. Some women have been buying tapeworm and have eating them so that the tapeworm can help them diet so that they can be skinny or have loss of weight. The tapeworm as you can see is wanted and not wanted. Because of the illness that is caused by the tapeworm. The tapeworms body is a long smooth like tape it is white. If you were to walk bare foot on the ground or something in that nature then u may catch it if u step on it and touch your foot and then put it in your mouth. But in that state it would be larva.so it wouldn’t be that easy to tell that u stepped on it. Very common symptoms of tapeworm are nausea, weakness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, hunger or loss of appetite fatigue, weight loss, and loss of vitamins.The tape worm is a complex living creature which can live in your body. When it is attached to your intestines it’s basically if you were a woman with a child. Most if not all the symptoms are closely related with a women’s symptoms of nursing. The tape worm will take some of your blood. When you have a tapeworm or ate uncooked meat go straight to the hospital so that they can check if you have a tape

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