On Nov. 29, the North Carolina Division of Public Health was alerted to a suspected case of trichinellosis in western North Carolina. The index patient experienced flu-like symptoms and facial ...

Most cases of trichinellosis reported in recent years are attributed to the consumption of meat from wild game. It is a rarity to be diagnosed in the US.

Scientists have decoded the DNA of the parasitic worm that causes trichinosis, a disease linked to eating raw or undercooked pork or carnivorous wild game animals, such as bear and walrus.

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