To avoid Diphylobothrium latum infection in man, fish should be properly cooked to ensure that the infective plerocercoids is killed. Why is this so?
A. So that the hexacanth, which is the infective larvae would not persist in the fish and be transmitted to man.
B. So that the sparganum, which may have been hosted in raw or undercooked fish and would be responsible for infection would have been destroyed.
C. This is so because infection occurs by consuming raw or undercooked fish harbouring interegum.
D. Infection occurs by processed fish harbouring the coracidium.
Answer: B
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