Show Daily Health Service Trichina Comes ConIes of Eating Improperly Cooked Food By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American 1 cal Association and of Hy The Health Magazine l Occasionally there develops an epidemic epi epi- epi emic demic of infestation with the worms from rom pork that has not been properly cooked or cured In rare cases the meat neat of other animals Is Involved bun but bu butIn butin in n practically every instance reported in in this country it has always been Uncooked uncooked un un- cooked pork that has caused the epi epi- epi demic Practically no one dies of this disease dis dis- dis ease ase but the person who has It suffers a great deal of pain and is for a considerable period o of time Ime One of the chief symptoms o of the he disease is the pain in the muscles and the swelling of the face The physician makes his diagnosis by v changes that are caused in the blood by isolating the parasite in washings from the stomach or from the he bowel by finding the parasite in portions of ot the meat that have no not been cen consumed and finally by taking a piece out of ot the muscles at the painful painful pain pain- ful ul point and finding the parasite in inthe inthe the he muscle Trichina could be completely eliminated eliminated if iC all meat could be refrigerated at t 5 degrees F. F for 20 days if it be fore tore use it could be thoroughly cooked or cured because the parasite of tr trio tn china dies at degrees F. F if rats could be completely exterminated around meat shops slaughter houses house and hog pens and finally i if the swill swilland and offal to the hogs could b be thoroughly cooked or otherwise When meat infested with trichina i is eaten the cyst wall of the parasite i is digested in the stomach and th the worms v get out They then go into the small intestines where they grow to maturity in fri two or three days On th the sixth or seventh day the fertilized female burrows into the wall of th the Intestine By the ninth or tenth day the embryos released by the female femal are found in fair numbers in the mus muse cbs cles The embryo grows rapidly Inthe in inthe inthe the muscle becoming completely developed developed de de- in about 15 days then it coils coil up and a wall is formed around it O Of course when the muscle meat containing contain contain- ing lag these embryos is eaten the whole process Is repeated in the animal that tha cats the meat In 1200 cases of ot trichinosis that tha occurred in the United States raw sausage was the cause in cases raw ham in cases sausage in 14 cases and incompletely cooked pork in cases Trichinosis resembles resemble typhoid fever and chronic rheumatism rheumatism rheumatism in its early stages and it is only careful investigation by a physician that can reveal its C cause |