Daily AncestorTrichinosis
Trichinosis is a disease from eating undercooked meat, often pork or bear, that carries tiny Trichinella worms; it causes fever and muscle pain.
Webster's 1913 describes trichinosis as the disease produced by trichinae in the muscles and intestines, marked by fever, muscle pain and signs like typhoid fever, and frequently fatal. The worms enter the body in undercooked meat containing their cysts.
In North America the source today is most often bear meat, but pork, wild boar and dog meat can also carry it.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Jacob Merz, 40, M, W, Butcher, Trichinosis
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