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  • Trichinosis is a disease whereby a person eats meat which contains thousands of small parasitic worms.

    Top 4 Enjoyable Unusual Meats You Should Try | Manolith 2010

  • Last Friday, an op-ed hit the pages of the New York Times written by James McWilliams ( "Free Range Trichinosis") purporting that free-range pork was more likely to be contaminated with the deadly parasite trichonosis than its industrially sardined and antibiotic-overdosed cousin.

    Paula Crossfield: Memo to NYT "Free-Range Trichinosis" Editorialist: Food Safety Advocates Can Handle Transparency 2009

  • Made with powdered milk, of course – “Trichinosis” her mother told them as if they knew what that was – but real chocolate, shaved from bricks dark and bitter, cocoa so strong that when she dipped torn rolls into it, she could not say whether she was softening the crust or mellowing the pungent chocolate.

    BRASIL AS A GIRL Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Among the parasitic diseases caused by worms are Hookworms, Elephantiasis, and Trichinosis.

    A Close Look at Parasitic Diseases 2008

  • Trichinosis” is caused by the “Trichina”, a worm found in raw or incompletely cooked pork.

    A Close Look at Parasitic Diseases 2008

  • Trichinosis, bacteria, etc. See one Dr. Morton Linder's neat precis in a letter to the editor here.

    Davis Sweet: Rabbi v. Reality 2008

  • The base reason for this is a type of roundworm called Trichina worm, which can live in pork and causes a parasitic disease in humans called Trichinosis.

    Augieland: 2006

  • Once you evaluate the actual threat and the available solutions you can also just freeze pork for three days at -4°F as long as the pieces are smaller than 6 inches thick, probably the real reason only 12 Americans a year are affected by Trichinosis, apply this knowledge to your decisions.

    Medium-rare pork 2006

  • The base reason for this is a type of roundworm called Trichina worm, which can live in pork and causes a parasitic disease in humans called Trichinosis.

    Medium-rare pork 2006

  • Once you evaluate the actual threat and the available solutions you can also just freeze pork for three days at -4°F as long as the pieces are smaller than 6 inches thick, probably the real reason only 12 Americans a year are affected by Trichinosis, apply this knowledge to your decisions.

    Augieland: 2006

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  • " I guess there's always that trichinosis thing, but you don't know about that for years." Janet Evanovich-Finger Lickin' Fifteen

    September 23, 2010