"You are one bizarre bear, Yogi!"
Posted on 10/10/2024 10:41:19 AM PDT by DFG
Barbecue goers in North Carolina were sickened with parasites after being served bear meat, a new CDC report has confirmed.
In November 2023, 10 unidentified people reported fever, swelling in their faces, and muscle aches about three weeks after the event.
All of the attendees, with the youngest being just 10 years old, reported consuming undercooked bear meat at the event.
Officials from the North Carolina Division of Public Health said that based on the patients' symptoms, they had been sickened by trichinellosis, a rare parasitic infection occurring just 15 times per year in the US.
Trichinellosis, also called trichinosis, is caused by Trichinella roundworms.
According to the Mayo Clinic, these parasites typically infect bears, cougars, walruses, foxes, wild boars, and domestic pigs.
Humans can contact trichinellosis from consuming immature forms of these worms, called larvae, which are round in raw or undercooked meat from these animals.
Over the course of several weeks, those worms grow within a person's intestines and produce more larvae that travel through the bloodstream to different parts of the body before burying themselves in muscle tissue.
Because it takes several weeks, many patients don't experience symptoms right away. According to the CDC's MMWR report released Thursday, the majority of infected patients took 21 days to start showing symptoms.
The average patient age was 17, with sickened barbecue goers ranging from 10 to 40 years old.
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Don’t mess with the bear
bear sushi
I won’t eat anything that can eat me.
Could be any thing when under cooked. Don’t blame the “bizarre” bear meat
Bear wasn’t cooked right.
Ping.
I wonder if anyone who was exposed and did not get sick — and you know there had to be a few — was on a self-maintenance dose of ivermectin.
I remember an episode of Emergency! that had people getting trichinosis from eating bear meat.
Jut saying...
All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you (Leviticus 11:27).
This is the UK Daily Mail. They eat horses over there so don’t listen to them about what type of meat is “bizarre” to eat.
My old Joy of Cooking book had a few recipes for bear. Mind you it was written back when other “bizarre” meats such as muskrat, and ‘possum were also included.
Bear meat is really dangerous to eat. Mr. GG2 was somewhere in Alaska and they were serving bear meat. He took a pass and everyone that ate it got sick.
It was bearly cooked.
"You are one bizarre bear, Yogi!"
I’ve had black bear roast - dry but delicious with blackberry sauce. Ptarmigan Dining Room, Many Glacier Hotel IIRC. The bison stroganoff was also excellent.
Nothing “bizarre” about bear meat. Headline writer must be a citified poofter.
But you do have to cook it. Completely.
Wild meats should NEVER be under cooked.
And I say that as someone who likes my beef steaks just this side of blue-rare.
The bear’s revenge.
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