Word: trichinella
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Right around Home. The U.S. has its store of worms. In the highbrow town of Princeton, NJ. (where Dr. Stoll lives), 23% of the children were found, in 1943, to be infested with some kind of worms. Commonest U.S. worm is the trichinella, which makes the U.S. its headquarters and infests 21 million people, one-sixth of the population, three times as many as in all the rest of the world. These worms cause trichinosis, with a long list of symptoms: spots on the skin, swellings, nausea, pains all over the body, wasting and general weakness...
...most treacherous of major diseases, trichinosis, is caused by eating underdone pork in which larvae of the hairlike worm Trichinella spiralis dwell. Trichinosis, with its severe intestinal pains and high temperature is rarely diagnosed, more often confused with typhoid or rheumatic fever. Although public health officials have long known that the U. S. has a higher incidence of trichinosis than any other country in the world,* even the efficient Public Health Service did not publish until last year the astounding fact that an estimated 16,000.000 persons in the U. S. are infected with trichinae...
...Francisco doctor and his wife last month ate some underdone steaks from a northern California bear which had chewed a hog which had gobbled a rat which had gnawed at a hog whose flesh contained larvae of a tiny round worm called Trichinella spiralis. In consequence of that series of meals, the doctor and his wife, their tongues, larynges, eyes, flanks and diaphragms thickly infested with larvae of the worms, last week were undergoing the excruciating anguish of trichinosis...
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