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3 unusual facts about trichinosis


Trichinosis

Pork can be safely cooked to a slightly lower temperature provided that the internal meat temperature is at least as hot for at least as long as listed in the USDA table below.

In 1835, James Paget, a first-year medical student, first observed the larval form of T. spiralis while witnessing an autopsy at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.

Pork: Freezing cuts of pork less than 6 inches thick for 20 days at 5 °F (−15 °C) or three days at −4 °F (−20 °C) kills T. spiralis larval worms; but this will not kill other trichinosis larval worm species, such as T. nativa, if they have infested the pork food supply (which is unlikely).


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Friedrich Albert von Zenker

Friedrich Albert von Zenker (13 March 1825, Dresden – 13 June 1898, near Plau in Mecklenburg) was a German pathologist and physician, celebrated for his discovery of trichinosis.


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