Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-27 | Page 5 | Your Health

o l YOUR HEALTH , 8Y DR. R H. BISHOP. I - ritn inv S1S When you consider the great mini-ber mini-ber of diseases man can have, and the countless millions of, germs wnti bful- ' 1 ly walling to spring upon unsusp.-. ting I victims, you cannot but marvel that j ' w e arc living at all. A sudden outbreak of a certain dls- 1 lease always attracts scientific atten- tlon. as did a small epidemic of trii bl- 'nosls. a rather rue disease in this1 'country. In New Jersey recently. Trichinosis is caused by organisms In the form of small round worms, I i barely Visible to the eye. which occur I in cyst", or membraneous pouches, in i h" mi liscl' s of Ini' c'ed meat-eating animals, generally the hog. and rat and man. They aro known to remain alive, thought Inactive, in the hog for: I at least 11 years When the raw or Imperfectly cooked meat from such L ! an animal is eaten, the worms are Ub-. Ub-. rated during the process of digestion. i prow and multiply In the Intestine and ih cnmu worm- te larvae th.-n liore their way Into the blood stream and I finally into the muscles Of the new-host. new-host. Here the-y gradtially become encysted en-cysted and remain until tbey die or 'are. In turn, liberated, as before. I The decree of Illness Is thought to vary with the number of living trichina tri-china eaten. The number of worm 1 larvae In a pound of Infected pork has I n estimated as high as 500,000. Thorough cooking of the Infected meat kills the larvae. The disease is. therefore, confined, In most cases, to those of national riles which eat pork raw or slightly cooked. The epidemic of this disease- referred refer-red to numbered 34 cases. Investlga-j tlon proved conclusively that the I source of the epidemic was an Infected hog which had been slauchtered re' sntly, a part of the meat having been eaten as sausage.