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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No. Think of PIG. Hooves does not stop them from having parasites.
In Arkansas wild hogs are shot and left to rot because of the parasites. Many also have psudorabies.
PIG. Split hooves but do not chew the cud. They root for roots and worms and other nasties. Best pig are farm raised and fed grain.
PIG. Split hooves but do not chew the cud. They root for roots and worms and other nasties. Best pig are farm raised and fed grain.
In the olden days, cattle were fed grain. then hogs brought in to eat the manure waste, then chickens to eat the pig manure.
Again, the olden days.
Other than that, you'll be fine.
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