hello,
What I meant by “against most poskim” was not our contemporary poskim, I know we’re in agreement halochoh l’maaseh. I meant that the Chavos Daas is learning the sugya of shilia in a novel way, to answer some kushyos. There is definitely basis for the sevoro that worms have the status of their host, in fact, it’s the simple pshat in the gemoro (Chullin 67b, our sugya) regarding worms in an animal being ever min hachai.
More later, iy”H.