Question

If a person eats raw or undercooked meat infected by Taenia solium or Taenia saginata will this person develop taeniasis or cysticercosis?

Answer 1

Yes, if a person eats raw or uncooked meat infected by taenia solium or taenia saginata will develop taeniasis or cysticercosis. If a person eats raw or uncooked infected meat, he ingest either adult tapeworm or eggs or both. In case of ingestion of adult tapeworm taeniasis occurs. In case of ingestion of eggs, cysticercosis occurs where eggs make human intermediate host.

Thus if a person eats raw or uncooked infected meat he will develop either taeniasis or cysticercosis or both.