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Analyze the question: It asks how humans get infected (contract) tapeworm, a parasitic flatworm (Taenia).

Concept: Tapeworms such as Taenia solium (pork tapeworm) and Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm) have a life cycle involving an intermediate host (pig or cattle).

Step by step:

1. The tapeworm's eggs are passed out in the faeces of an infected person.
2. Pigs or cattle swallow the eggs while feeding.
3. The eggs hatch in the animal, and the larvae burrow into the muscles (the meat) and form cysts called cysticerci (bladder worms).
4. A person eats raw or undercooked infected meat (pork or beef).
5. The cyst develops in the human intestine into an adult tapeworm, which attaches itself with its scolex (hooks and suckers).

Checking the options:

• A. Ingesting uncooked meat: Correct. This is the main route of infection.
• B. From fish: Some tapeworms (e.g., Diphyllobothrium, the fish tapeworm) can come from raw fish, but the option is vague and is not the standard answer in the syllabus. Also, it is the raw fish that matters, not fish in general.
• C. From breathing: Wrong. Tapeworm is not airborne.
• D. Through contact: Wrong. It is not spread by casual contact.

Answer: A. Ingesting uncooked meat

Tip: Remember "Tapeworm = Taking in raw meat." Cooking meat thoroughly kills the cysts. For JAMB, link parasites with their mode of transmission: tapeworm → undercooked meat, malaria parasite → mosquito bite, schistosomiasis → contact with infected water, hookworm → penetration of the skin through bare feet.