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Show I are very severe result from penetration pene-tration of muscle fibre by the small worms. Tenderness is most marked in the muscles of the extremities, ex-tremities, particularly in those of the calves. The temperature may reach 103 degrees. There is no known method for destroying the worms once they enter the muscles of the body. It is important, therefore, that competent com-petent medical help be secured in the very early stage of the disease. Pork and pork products, such as hamberger, etc., may be safely safe-ly eaten if the meat is adequately adequate-ly cooked. Customers should refuse re-fuse to eat hamburger that is not thoroughly cooked. Trichinosis is a reportable disease dis-ease in Utah, but due to the fact that quarantine of the patient is unnecessary and that the disease dis-ease is not transmissible from one person to another physicians fail to report all of the cases to the State Department of Health. PORK SHOULD BE WELLCOOKED Because of the marked increase in the consumption of pork and pork products, it is felt that the public should be warned against the danger of acquiring trichinosis trichin-osis through eating insufficiently insufficient-ly cooked pork. Trichinosis in man is a serious disease and is caused by a smuii round worm, Trichinella spiralis. People of all ages may become infected and an attack of the disease does not confer immunity immu-nity against subsequent attacks. It is estimated that trichinosis is more common and more wide spread in the United States than in any other country. In the examination ex-amination at autopsy of several thousand persons in various parts of the country, approximately one in every six persons was found to be infected. Most of these infections were very light and it is most likely that the persons per-sons represented did not suffer seriously. The symptoms of trichinosis in i man are variable and resemble so closely those of many other diseases that diagnosis is often a difficult problem for the physician. phy-sician. In severe infections the disease may be ushered in by nausea vomiting, diarrhoea, and abdominal abdom-inal pain which have their onset on-set within 24 to 48 hours after infection. However, these symptoms symp-toms are absent in a considerable consider-able portion of the cases. After the newly hatched worms enter into the blood stream and begin to reach the muscles the patient may have swelling of the face particularly around the eyes, sore throat, cough, intermittent fever general or -local muscle pains! Tal1 hemorrhages under the skm difficulty in chewing and swallowing and labored breathing. breath-ing. Headache and a feeling of great weakness and depression may also be present. Muscle pains which at times |
