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Family infected with parasitic worms in US after eating bear meat, CDC says-Six people who ate a meal in South Dakota in 2022 with black bear meat diagnosed with trichinellosis, a parasitic zoonotic disease
Guardian ^ | 26 May 2024 | Maya Yang Sun

Posted on 05/28/2024 7:04:41 AM PDT by SJackson

Six people who shared a meal involving black bear meat kebabs have been diagnosed with trichinellosis, a parasitic zoonotic disease.

In a new report released this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that in July 2022, a 29-year old hospitalized patient with suspected trichinellosis was reported to the Minnesota health department. His symptoms included fever, severe muscle aches, periorbital edema or eye swelling, and eosinophilia or the condition of elevated levels of eosinophils, a type of white blood cell.

According to the report, a week prior to the symptoms appearing, the patient and eight other people shared a meal that included the meat of a black bear which had been frozen for 45 days before being grilled and served rare with vegetables that had been cooked with the meat.

An investigation into the incident found six trichinellosis cases, including two in people who consumed only the vegetables. Trichinellosis is a parasitic infection caused by the larvae of trichinella, a type of roundworm. Typically, meat contaminated with the trichinella larvae comes from meat-eating animals such as bears, wild boars or walruses.

Molecular testing found that larvae from the bear meat had been frozen in a household freezer for more than 15 weeks and that the larvae was trichinella nativa, a freeze-resistant species.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: bear; bearmeat; bearrepublic; bearsrepeating; blackbear; blackbearmeat; food; kebabs; meat; parasitic; trichinellosis; unbearable; wildlife; zoonotic
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To: SJackson
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And sometimes the bear gets revenge if you eat him.

21 posted on 05/28/2024 7:49:46 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: SJackson

Yep. It can happen.


22 posted on 05/28/2024 7:50:13 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SJackson

Next time I eat bear meat, I’ll make sure it’s well-done and not medium-rare, and I’ll wash it down with a shot of Maker’s Mark to pickle any bugs that survive the cooking.


23 posted on 05/28/2024 7:58:46 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SJackson

Rare bear meat. Mmmmmmmmm. 😵 How dumb can people get? Were they trying to be wild gourmets?


24 posted on 05/28/2024 8:07:42 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: SJackson

” and the worms ate into his brain”


25 posted on 05/28/2024 8:13:33 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: VTenigma

RFK Jr?


26 posted on 05/28/2024 8:13:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: goodnesswins

Veggies.in same roaster with meat. Heat was not enough to kill larva. Larva get out of meat and contaminate everything in roaster.


27 posted on 05/28/2024 8:28:51 AM PDT by mware
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To: goodnesswins
"The CDC warns that adequate cooking is the only reliable way to kill trichinella parasites and that infected meat can cross-contaminate other foods."

Sounds like they were cooking veggie kebabs along with the bear meat kebabs. Yuck.

28 posted on 05/28/2024 8:29:37 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: SJackson

I guess I won’t be serving walrus meat tartare anytime soon


29 posted on 05/28/2024 8:30:53 AM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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To: dfwgator

Him too.


30 posted on 05/28/2024 8:35:12 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Torahman

Exactly what I thought.


31 posted on 05/28/2024 8:58:05 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: SJackson

The cookbook of man (Torah) tells us what we should eat, and what to avoid. Don’t eat dogs, cats, bears or pigs. Don’t eat crabs, oysters, shrimp or lobster either. For that matter, no catfish or croc. Eat what eats vegetables or grains, not what eats carrion.

Anyone want to know what happens if you throw a human body into the ocean? Crabs tear it to shreds...YUMMY. Throw one into the pig pen, it is devoured to the bone.


32 posted on 05/28/2024 9:06:55 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: PGR88

Was it us boo boo?


33 posted on 05/28/2024 9:12:16 AM PDT by BansheeBill
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To: SJackson

I diagnosed a young man at an urgent care in Alaska who was infected with trichinosis from eating undercooked grizzly bear meat in the mid-1980’s, He damn near died, dropped 100 lbs of muscle, and had to change careers from construction to a desk job. It is a terrible disease. And remember, walrus must ALWAYS be well done!


34 posted on 05/28/2024 9:36:08 AM PDT by 43north (Dear God, after I die don't let me vote democrat.)
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To: SJackson; nickcarraway; Jane Long; ransomnote

Here’s a link to the report...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7320a2.htm

What’s interesting about the report is what’s not in it.

No mention of which species of Trichinella...

In the CDC report.

Go figure.


35 posted on 05/28/2024 9:42:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Allegra; Rocco DiPippo; bimboeruption
"A beary scary story"

Black Bear Lives Matter!!

36 posted on 05/28/2024 11:11:29 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mware

I had delicious bear stew a few years ago at a church potluck. Wouldn’t have eaten it if it hadn’t been boiling in a crock pot for many hours.


37 posted on 05/28/2024 11:19:11 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: SJackson

Note, never eat bear meat and never let a bear eat me.


38 posted on 05/29/2024 12:34:48 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: SJackson

Yep....freezing won’t kill that stuff..... just heat, and that means no ‘rare’.


39 posted on 05/29/2024 12:42:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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