The symptoms begin about one to two days after eating the contaminated meat, and may last for a week or so.
The symptoms of trichinosis are at their most severe at about three weeks after infection, and decrease very slowly in their severity. Recovery is extremely gradual, and symptoms may last for as long as three months.
Trichinosis is infection with the roundworm Trichinella spiralis
The mortality rate of trichinosis is about 1%
The blood test that is the most specific for trichinosis is the bentonite flocculation (BF) test.
In very severe cases of trichinosis, inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis ), lungs (pneumonitis), or brain (encephalitis) may occur. These symptoms can lead to the few deaths caused by trichinosis.
trichinophobia
Nemathelminthes
it can kill them and they can get it from animals
raw or undercooked pork
about 1%
Trichinosis is a parasitic disease cause by eating under cooked pork and wild game and is caused by the trichina round worm.
Trichinosis