A family was infected with a rare parasite after eating undercooked black bear meat that was harvested in Canada, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
At least six family members, including a 12-year-old, who gathered for a meal of black bear meat during a family reunion in South Dakota were infected by a rare roundworm parasite known as trichinellosis, the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention said in a release on Thursday.
The man was prescribed empiric albendazole as a treatment. 'Albendazole is used to treat infections caused by worms,' according to the Mayo Clinic. 'It works by keeping the worm from absorbing sugar , so that the worm loses energy and dies.' Eight family members, who live in Minnesota, South Dakota and Arizona, were interviewed by public health officials and six of them were found to have the parasite.
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