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AP July 7, 2017, 11:30 AM
Please cook your walrus "well done," warn health officials following outbreak
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials are warning the public of the risk of eating undercooked game meat after two outbreaks of trichinosis over the last year in western Alaska were tied to consuming walrus meat. The outbreaks sickened 10 people. All have fully recovered.
It was the first time since 1992 that multiple-case outbreaks of trichinosis were associated with walrus, which can only be hunted by Alaska Natives for subsistence or handicraft purposes.
Health care providers are being urged by CDC officials in this week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report to consider wild game consumption when patients present with suspected trichinosis...
AP July 7, 2017, 11:30 AM
Please cook your walrus "well done," warn health officials following outbreak
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials are warning the public of the risk of eating undercooked game meat after two outbreaks of trichinosis over the last year in western Alaska were tied to consuming walrus meat. The outbreaks sickened 10 people. All have fully recovered.
It was the first time since 1992 that multiple-case outbreaks of trichinosis were associated with walrus, which can only be hunted by Alaska Natives for subsistence or handicraft purposes.
Health care providers are being urged by CDC officials in this week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report to consider wild game consumption when patients present with suspected trichinosis...