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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My friends in Alaska eat their share of bear meat. They put roasts and other cuts in a crock pot and cook them for about eight hours until the meat is so tender it falls apart with a fork. Bear meat has trichinosis so it has to be cooked for a long time. Undercooked bear meat is just asking for trouble!
Animals with hooves are okay?
It is likely a number of Russians, attempting to escape from a doomed ship, stuck in the arctic ice, succumbed to trichinosis from eating undercooked polar bear meat. (They were low on food and fuel) The book is "In The Land of White Death". Significantly, a month after consuming the first bear, (May 25) several members were sick and lethargic by June 25.
Somebody made a Boo Boo.
Sometimes you eat the bear. Sometimes the bear eats you. Sometimes you are very sorry you ate the bear.
Me too.
Eating lunch as I read this. Bad time to have clicked on this thread.......Yuck!
Trichinosis can get in your brain, too. That may be what RFK Jr. was referring to recently.
Good one!
Bear is not bizarre. Maybe to English. Lots of people hunt it and dress and cook it.
Yeah. They never get worms.
I still do. Afraid to eat it out, too. What my folks taught me.
And mom came from a pork-plant family, all about pigs. Family is still running it today.
A year ago, but thank God for the CDC helping the unworthy NCs
There’s nothing like a juicy burger, unless it’s made with wild animal meat. A trichinosis infection is likely nothing more than what a good dosing of Ivermectin couldn’t cure. By the way take a look at this article on the ‘wonder’ drug that many are just now re-discovering with it’s astounding treatment profile for a multitude of parasites, viruses, and, of course, a cure for trichinosis. It’s a helluva lot cheaper than the Big Pharma drug mentioned in the article.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711
Trichinosis in bear meat is unique in that it must be well cooked and cannot be killed by freezing like swine trichinosis. Most bears have trichinosis.
The cause was the bear meat but bear meat is not bizarre.
I had bear stew at a church super about six years ago. It was delicious. I wouldn’t have eaten it if I hadn’t known it had been cooked for hours.
Grandpa served bear a few times. Not dead yet
Always follow the old advice: split hooves and chew cudd for mammals. If not, don’t eat them.
(Horses have neither split hooves, nor chew cudd, to my knowledge.)
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