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Treatment consists of alleviation of the symptoms caused by the worms rather tnan destruction of the worms." After reading these statements of Dr. Shephered and Dr. Widmer we can presume that there is no guarantee of immunity when eating pork which is affected by Trichinella worm. To take pork then is an extremely risky gamble with one's health or life as the stake .

QUESTION: You said in the beginning that "pork reigns supreme in the greater contents of germs among all meats known to human beings." I would like to have a detailed list of those germs. ANSWER: In addition to the bacteria and worms described earlier, pork is the main carrier of the following germs and parasites: Tapeworms Roundworms Hookworms Faciolopsis Buski Paragonimus Clonorchis Sinesis Erysipelothrix Rhusiophathiae QUESTION: Will you, please, explain their relation with pork?

ANSWER: Let us begin with tapeworm. Tapeworm is called ''Taenia Solium" in Latin. Pork is one of the main sources of this infection . The incidence of human infection with the pork tapeworm varies throughout the world. In his now classic report "This Wormy World," (1947) Stoll estimated that 2.5 million persons throughout the world were infected with this organism. QUESTION: What about roundworm?

ANSWER: It is a parasite, six to twelve inches long, which is also called a 'travelling worm' because it goes into various organs of the human body. Dr. Ramson mentioned in the 'Stills parisitology,' that these parasites of men are identical with those found in pigs; they belong to the same species. It means that the worm which is found in pork is quite easily transferred to human-beings where it does a lot of damage.

The same statement is found in Encyclopaedia Britannica, under 'Roundworm.' QUESTION: And what are 'hookworms' ? ANSWER: The young worms of this disease enter the human skin by piercing the skin or through any wounds. Pigs eat up human excreta containing eggs of the parasites which develop inside them and they hatch into young worms. When these are passed out they are infectious to man. This infection is very prevalent in various tropical countries. Encyclopaedia Britannica (vol .

I I ) writes under 'Hookworm': "Hookworm is a parasitic roundworm. Two parasites Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus cause hookworm disease. "Hookworm disease is a scourge of tropical climates, resu Iting in a debi I itated anaemic population.