A province in Argentina has reported almost 250 cases of trichinosis linked to eating pork products.
Health officials in Córdoba revealed that 244 cases of trichinosis had been registered in Totoral, Colón, Unión, Capital and
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A number of Argentinian provinces have recently reported human outbreaks of trichinellosis.
Trichinellosis, or trichinosis, is an illness people can get by eating raw or undercooked meat from animals infected with the parasite Trichinella. It
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Two people have been diagnosed with trichinellosis after eating undercooked wild boar meat in France.
The animal was killed during a hunt on Dec. 8, 2020, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region. The two hunters from Vallespir
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Argentinian authorities have published a report they hope will increase understanding of the Trichinella situation in the country.
The National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (SENASA) report analyzed Trichinellosis reports between 2010 and 2019.
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Meat from backyard pigs was the source of a trichinellosis outbreak in France and Serbia in 2017.
Three patients were exposed in Serbia and took pork back to France where they shared it with relatives
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A number of patients with symptoms of Trichinellosis have been detected near the Italian city of Turin.
A statement from early January by health authorities put the number of people affected at 20 but this
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Scientists from Lancaster University have discovered immune responses that are important in eliminating the causative agent of Trichinosis.
Researchers from the university in the United Kingdom found immune responses that prevent fungal infections also help
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The number of trichinellosis cases in Europe increased by more than 50 from 2016 to 2017 following several years of decline.
For 2016, 13 countries reported 166 infections and 101 confirmed cases. In 2017, 15
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There were an average of 100 food and waterborne outbreaks per week in Europe, according to the 2017 zoonoses report.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority
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A report on an outbreak of foodborne parasite infections in California in early 2017, published by the CDC, describes how raw, wild boar meat resulted in life-threatening illnesses for several people.
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Federal officials this week made public details of two outbreaks of Trichinella infections in Alaska in the past 12 months, both linked to undercooked walrus meat.
Long associated with undercooked pork, the majority of cases
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