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Do they?
(the Wikipedia section refers to raw vegan diets, but I suppose that eating significant quantities of raw meat, fish or dairy poses a risk of infection by bacteria or worms)
Your gut flora would probably be completely different and more resistant to those things if you ate all your meat raw. Are other animals affected by food poisoning to any significant degree?
AFAIK, the immune system has some ability to adapt to different pathogens, but this doesn't mean that eating significant quantities of raw meat wouldn't pose a health risk, particularly for a long-lived species such as humans.
AFAIK, trichinellosis is endemic in wild carnivorous mammals.
It definitely poses a risk, but how high is it?
The question is, do they actually suffer from it, or are they carriers.