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 ...
And sometimes the bear gets revenge if you eat him.
Yep. It can happen.
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.
Rare bear meat. Mmmmmmmmm. 😵 How dumb can people get? Were they trying to be wild gourmets?
” and the worms ate into his brain”
RFK Jr?
Veggies.in same roaster with meat. Heat was not enough to kill larva. Larva get out of meat and contaminate everything in roaster.
Sounds like they were cooking veggie kebabs along with the bear meat kebabs. Yuck.
I guess I won’t be serving walrus meat tartare anytime soon
Him too.
Exactly what I thought.
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.
Was it us boo boo?
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!
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.
Black Bear Lives Matter!!
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.
Note, never eat bear meat and never let a bear eat me.
Yep....freezing won’t kill that stuff..... just heat, and that means no ‘rare’.
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