TWELVE PARTY GUESTS GET WORMS FROM EATING WILD PIG

Twelve people developed the parasitic infection trichinellosis after eating raw wild boar at a party in California. According to a report from the Center for Disease Control, a physician first notified California public health officials of a patient with a probable trichinellosis diagnosis in January 2017. Officials learned that one of the patient’s relatives, as well as three other friends and family members, had been treated at area hospitals for symptoms consistent with trichinellosis, including fever, intestinal issues and muscle pain. Each of these people had attended the same party the previous month. The hosts had served several pork dishes from a wild boar that they had raised and slaughtered on their family farm. One of the dishes was a salad that includes minced raw pork. Trichinellosis comes from eating raw or undercooked meat that contains Trichinella worm larvae. The worms get into the small intestine where they mature and lay eggs. Eventually, those eggs hatch and worms reach the arteries and muscles.
* Oh, that tricky Trichinella!
* By the way, I hope everybody is enjoying their sausage and bacon this morning.
* Kind of a roundabout way for the wild boar to get even, but it worked.
* Cooking the pork is the safe way to do it, plus it makes the Trichinella worm larvae nice and crispy.
* That’s one way to keep guests from ever coming over again.