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- Trichinosis is caused by eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game infected with the larvae of a parasitic worm.
- The contaminated meat is infected with the larvae of a worm called Trichinella spiralis.
- The initial symptoms of trichinosis are:
- Abdominal discomfort
- The severity of symptoms depends on the number of infectious worms consumed in the meat.
- Never eat raw or undercooked pork or wild game.
- If you think you may have trichinosis, seek medical attention.
Roundworms in Human
What Are Roundworms?
Roundworms, also known as nematodes, are a common term for parasites that comprise the phylum Nematoda that contain mainly free-living species and are located everywhere on earth. Roundworms are not ringworm, which is a fungal infection. Researchers estimate there may be as many as 500,000 species, but only about 60 species infect man and animals as parasites. The most commonly identified parasites that use us and some animals as food for survival, multiplication, and spread (transmission to others) are termed ascariasis, trichuriasis, hookworm, enterobiasis, strongyloidiasis, filariasis, and trichinosis.
What causes trichinosis worms? Is it spread by pork?
Trichinosis is caused by
Trichinella species (parasitic nematodes, intestinal worms, and roundworms) that initially enter the body when meat containing the
Trichinella cysts(roundworm larvae) is eaten. For humans, undercooked or raw pork and pork products, such as pork sausage, has been the meat most commonly responsible for transmitting the
Trichinella parasites. It is a food-borne infection and not
contagious from one human to another unless infected human muscle is eaten. However, almost any carnivore (meat eater) or omnivore (eats meat and plants for food) can both become infected and, if eaten, can transmit the disease to other carnivores and omnivores. For example, undercooked or raw bear meat can contain livable
Trichinella cysts. Therefore, if humans,
dogs, pigs, rats, or mice eat the meat, they can become infected. In rare instances, larvae in cattle feed can infect cattle. There are six species that are known to infect humans:
- T. spiralis found in many carnivorous and omnivorous animals worldwide.
- T. britovi found in carnivorous animals in Europe and Asia.
- T. pseudospiralis found in mammals and birds worldwide.
- T. nativa found in arctic mammals (for example, bears, foxes).
- T. nelsoni found in African mammals (for example, lions, hyenas).
- T. murrelli found in wild animals in the U.S.
Two other species,
T. papuae (found in pigs in New Guinea) and
T. zimbabwensis (found in crocodiles in Tanzania) have not been reported to infect humans to date. There are other
strains (antigenic variants related to named species) that are unnamed and can infect humans. Trichinellosis trichinosis is not spread as to person; infection only occurs when raw undercooked meat containing the parasite is ingested.
In 2017, at least 17 people were diagnosed with the disease after eating smoked brown bear cub meat in Kataiga, Russia.
Trichinosis is not a sexually transmitted disease (
STD).
Trichinosis or trichinellosis is a parasitic infection caused by roundworms and can damage body tissues. Symptoms of trichinosis are diarrhea, heartburn, and nausea that start one or two days after ingestion. About two to eight weeks after ingestion, symptoms are abdominal cramps, swelling...
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In conclusion, it's a scientific fact that pork is unhealthy.
My hypothesis is that pork is unhealthy in the first place, but catching a deadly disease like Covid-19 (which is proven to be a deadly disease) and still eating pork is exponentially less healthy.