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Trichinosis : Causes

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Causes could include:
Trichinosis is a disease caused by eating undercooked meat containing cysts of Trichinella spiralis. Trichinella spiralis can be found in pork, bear, walrus, fox, rat, horse, and lion meat.Wild animals, especially carnivores(meat eaters) or omnivo...
Source:ADAM
Date:December 3, 2008
If the meat ingested has only a few cysts, then the human host's load of parasites(worm burden) is said to be relatively small, and symptoms will be moderate. In fact, many trichinosis infections are subclinical, which means that the symptoms are ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
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