Talk:Tapeworm infection

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Changed the sentence about undercooked food leading to the ingestion of tapeworms. Properly cooking food prevents you from eating live tapeworm larvae. Cooking kills the tapeworms, it doesn't remove them from the food. (Though dead tapeworms are harmless, so this is a somewhat subtle point.)

Dyersville, Iowa?[edit]

Why is there a reference to Dyersville? Looks like vandalism to me... Misterdoe (talk) 11:05, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tapeworm diet.[edit]

According to this poster, in the 1930s, they sold sanitized tape worms as an alternative to exercise & dieting. http://208.106.181.133/_media/imgs/articles2/a97041_g021_4-tapeworms.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.17.118.100 (talk) 12:24, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I feel like that should be mentioned somewhere in this article. It was also mentioned in a Huffington Post article about old "miracle cure" ads. (Also, how does one "sanitize" a tapeworm?) Beggarsbanquet (talk) 05:57, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think you can still buy those in some places, although I can't find any on english-speaking sites. I'm not sure they're legal to sell, but there's either people scamming or selling them in Poland - http://www.oglaszamy24.pl/szukaj/ogloszenia/jaja-tasiemca Pies (talk) 17:44, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Tapeworm" should refer here, not to the article on the flatworm ("Cestoda")[edit]

The overwhelming majority of searches for "Tapeworm" are going to be looking for the medical condition: Tapeworm infection — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.167.95.174 (talk) 23:16, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In stools[edit]

The article mentions that tapeworm infections are usually first noticed by seeing worms in the stool of the infected, but how is one to know what that looks like? Perhaps an image (however gross) might be in order. 24.222.251.111 (talk) 21:14, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't find any such images on Commons. You're welcome to look elsewhere for them. Danger (talk) 21:32, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]