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Can you get tapeworms from eating raw but cured pork meat?

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Only if the meat is not cured properly. Curing is a food preservation method where salt, nitrates, nitrites, and/or sugar is used to draw moisture out of the meat via osmosis. read more

We can eat improperly cooked or cured pork, ingest the still-viable cysts, and develop the tapeworm in our intestine (taeniasis). But we may also be infested with the cystic stage through eating raw vegetable matter that has been contaminated with human sewage. read more

Trichinellosis, also called trichinosis, is caused by eating raw or undercooked meat of animals infected with the larvae of a species of worm called Trichinella. Infection occurs commonly in certain wild carnivorous (meat-eating) animals such as bear or cougar, or omnivorous (meat and plant-eating) animals such as domestic pigs or wild boar. read more

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