“Trichinosis!” All this was in the fall of ... infection in man is by eating pork containing trichinae [certain tiny worms]; the hogs become infected from eating swill that contains the ...

Scientists have decoded the DNA of the parasitic worm that causes trichinosis, a disease linked to eating raw or undercooked pork or carnivorous wild game animals, such as bear and walrus.

Kennedy Jr. once suffered from, in his own words, “a worm that got into my brain and ... strongyloidiasis, and trichinosis. But some experts immediately suspected a condition called ...