Show PUBLIC HEALTH NEWS there were new cases of communicable disease reported to the utah state board of health for the week ending august 18 this is a decrease of 33 cases from the previous week and of 38 from the corresponding week last year these new cases included one case each of trichinosis undulant fever and tularemia trichinosis is not known to be widely prevalent in utah and is contracted from consuming pork that is improperly cooked f from rom infected hogs undulant fever and tularemia have been diagnosed in utah more frequently but they are not widely spread everyone should be careful however that |