Glen Shephered wrote an article on the dangers of eating pork in the 31st May...

Glen Shephered wrote an article on the dangers of eating pork in the 31st May, 1952 issue of the Washington Post; and the following information's are taken from that article: "One in six people in the United States of America and Canada have worms in their muscles - Trichinosis - from eating pork infected with Trichina or Trichinelly. Many people so infected have no symptoms. Most of those who do have, recover slowly. Some die. Some are reduced to permanent invalids.

All were careless pork eaters." He continued: "No one is immune from this disease and there is no cure. Neither antibiotics nor drugs or- vaccines affect these tiny deadly worms. Preventing infection is the real answer. "Fully grown Trichina worms are about 1/8 inch long and about 1/400 inch broad. They remain alive for about forty years, curled up in lemon shaped, invisible tiny capsules between muscle fibres.

When you eat infected meat, these dormant worm capsules are digested, but their live contents grow into full size worms each of which has about 1,500 offsprings. They get into your blood one to three weeks after you eat their parents. Because many organs can be invaded by the worms, symptoms can resemble those of fifty other diseases. This makes diagnosis difficult." (Emphasis mine) Previous…