Show department of health advises on dangers of trichinosis in pork because of the marked increase ease in the consumption ot of pork and pork products it la is felt that the public should bo be warned against the danger ot of acquiring q trichinosis through eating insufficiently cooked pork trichinosis in man Is a serious oll disease be ase and I 1 Is a caused by a small round worm spirally spi ralls people of all ages may become infected and an attack of the disease does doea not confer immunity against subsequent attacks it ii Is estimated that tri chinos to Is more common and m more ore wide spread in the united s states t ates t than h an in any other country in n the examination ami at autopsy 0 of f several thousand persons in various parts of the country approximately one in every six persons persona was found to be infected most of these infections elections were very light and it Is most likely that the persons represented did not suffer seriously the symptoms of trichinosis in man are variable and resemble so closely those of many other diseases that diagnosis Is 19 often a difficult problem tor for the physician in sever infections the dig bace may be ushered in by nausea vomiting diarrhoea and abdominal pain which have their onset within 24 to 48 hours after infection however Howe vei these symptoms are absent in a coll ca sid lid erable portion of the cases after the newly hatched borms enter into the blood stream and begin io to reach the muscles the patient may have swelling 0 of athe the face particularly around the eyes sore throat cough intermittent in fever general or local muscle pains small hemorrhages under the skin difficulty in chewing and swallowing and labored breathing headache and a feeling of great weakness and depression may also be present muscle pains which at times are very severe result from panet penetration et of the muscle fibre fabre by t the he small worms tenderness Is most marked in the muscles ot of llie ahe extremities particularly those in the calves the temperature may reach degrees there la Is no known method tor for destroying the worms one once e they enter the muscles of the body it Is important therefore that co competent tent medical help e be a secured in the very early s stage tag e of the disease pork and pork products such buell as a hamberger bain berger etc may be safely eaten it if the melt meat Is adequately cooked customers should refuse to eat hamberger that tha t I 1 Is 8 not thoroughly cooked cooke fl trichinosis Is a reportable depoi table dis ease in utah but due to the tact fact that quarantine of the patient is unnecessary and that the disease is not transmissible from one person to another physicians tall fail to report all of the cases to the state department of health |