Dogs can also get them by eating infested wild game, such as rabbits, that have eaten
infected flea larvae.
Not exact matches
Only humans are
infected by guinea worm, and the
larvae die within months if no one swallows the water
fleas carrying them.
People contract the disease by drinking unfiltered water harboring
larvae -
infected fleas.
If you are
infected with this parasite you may have swallowed
fleas that were already
infected with tapeworm
larvae.
Immature
fleas (
larvae) begin the cycle by swallowing the eggs of the worm and infection is passed on to a cat when it eats an
infected flea during grooming.
The tapeworm
larva which lives in the
flea will emerge and
infect the dog's intestine.
The
flea, who has already been
infected with tapeworm
larva by feeding on an
infected animal.
When
flea larvae feed on the droppings of
infected dogs, they take in the tapeworm eggs that develop into cysts inside the
flea.
Tapeworm eggs, which are shed within tapeworm segments in feces, are eaten by
flea larvae that develop into
infected fleas.
The
fleas get the tapeworms by feeding on animals that are
infected with them and ingesting the
larvae.
People can catch tapeworm by accidentally — brace yourself, this is gross — ingesting a
flea infected with tapeworm
larvae.
The immature
fleas larvae ingest the eggs of the worm, but infection is then passed on to a cat when it swallows an
infected flea during grooming.