The biological anthropologist Piers Mitchell suggests that garum may have helped spread fish tapeworms across Europe.
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For example, the identification of fish tapeworm eggs in Acre in the Crusader period indicate that this parasite was transported from northern Europe.
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Infection by the fish tapeworm " Diphyllobothrium latum " is seen in countries where people eat raw or undercooked fish, such as some countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Africa, and North and South America.