close Video Texas woman discovers horde of black worms known to carry dangerous parasite in backyard A Texas woman discovered something creepy in her backyard. At least six family members, including a 12-year-old, who gathered for a meal of black bear meat during a family reunion in South Dakota were infected by a rare roundworm parasite known as trichinellosis , the U.S.
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention said in a release on Thursday. Eight members of the family ate a meal together in South Dakota in 2022 that included the meat which one of them had been harvested in Saskachewan, Canada, and frozen for 45 days after a hunting outfitter recommended that as a way to get rid of parasites. "Persons who consume meat from wild game animals should be aware that adequate cooking is the only reliable way to kill Trichinella parasites, and that infected meat can cross-contaminate other foods," the CDC said in the release.
The meat was then grilled and served with vegetables as kebabs. Two of the infected family members had only eaten the vegetables. EXPERTS QUESTION RFK JR.
'S SUDDEN ‘BIZARRE’ MEDICAL CLAIMS THAT INCLUDE BRAIN WORMS, MERCURY POISONING Larvae from the black bear meat. (CDC) Because the meat was darker, it was inadvertently served rare, which some of the family members mentioned and then recooked. In July 2022, six days after the meal, one of the family members, a 29-year-old who had returned to Minnesota, began to experience symptoms, including fever, severe.
