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A family reunion’s bear feast turned into a medical disaster, thanks to some parasitic worms. In a recent paper, scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detail how the family caught trichinellosis from contaminated bear meat that wasn’t cooked thoroughly enough. Several family members became so…
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A Florida woman’s serious pneumonia that landed her in the hospital turned out to have a very strange culprit: deer meat tainted by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Though it took some time for the woman’s doctors to discover the true cause of her worsening illness, they were able to treat her in time once they did.