Sentences with phrase «carry tapeworm eggs»

Fleas and lice also carry tapeworm eggs.

Furthermore, that fleas must have already been carrying tapeworm eggs inside its body.

If the flea is carrying tapeworm eggs, your pet may get tapeworms if they are not on a product that protects against tapeworms and other intestinal parasites.

Pets can also become infected with tapeworms if they ingest fleas carrying tapeworm eggs.

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During grooming or in response to a flea's bite, the dog or cat can ingest the flea carrying the infective tapeworm egg, which grows in the pet's intestines into adult tapeworms.

Tapeworm eggs are carried by fleas and flea control is essential to prevent or eliminate tapeworms.

The most common route of tapeworm infection occurs when the cat swallows a flea that is carrying the parasite's eggs, but infection from mice carrying the tapeworm's egg is also possible.

Indeed, these tiny, wingless creatures often carry infectious agents themselves, such as tapeworm eggs and a variety of pernicious bacteria — including the organism that causes feline infectious anemia — which can be passed among cats that are in close physical contact.