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TRICHINIASIS

Trichiniasis (trichinosis) is a fatal disease characterised by nausea, fever, diarrhoea, and swelling of the muscles. It is caught from eating under cooked pork containing a minute worm named Trichina spiralis. The worms were discovered by Professor Owen in cysts in human muscle in 1832.
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