photo of trichinosis from a black bear, do you still want to eat bear meat?

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My friend's son got his first bear. They were happy until they found these nasty worms. My wife asked me to not hunt bears any more, and I told her they exist in pork as well. She is planning to be a vegetarian.

The white thread is trichinosis.

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elker said:
My friend's son got his first bear. They were happy until they found these nasty worms. My wife asked me to not hunt bears any more, and I told her they exist in pork as well. She is planning to be a vegetarian. The white thread is trichinosis.

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Its a species of roundworm (Trichinella murelli), infection by which causes Trichinosis.
 
I've never seen or heard of trichinella that looks like that. I'm sure the picture is of a different type of roundworm. When they check meat for trichinella, they take a section of diaphragm and squeeze it between two glass sheaves, looking for snail type cysts.

I've seen a few bears with those worms in the body cavity, they're white and like a long earthworm in size. One particular bear looked like someone had dumped a bucket of spaghetti in there. Regardless, as with any parasite, it's rarely the adult version you have to worry about.

If you're that worried about parasites, you better stop eating moose meat as well, it's loaded with tapeworm cysts. Cook all wild meat well and you'll be fine.
 
elker said:
My friend's son got his first bear. They were happy until they found these nasty worms. My wife asked me to not hunt bears any more, and I told her they exist in pork as well. She is planning to be a vegetarian.

The white thread is trichinosis.

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The way our pork is raised, not a real concern. Unless of course you insist on free range organic. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis

Grizz
 
elker said:
My friend's son got his first bear. They were happy until they found these nasty worms. My wife asked me to not hunt bears any more, and I told her they exist in pork as well. She is planning to be a vegetarian.

The white thread is trichinosis.

trichinosis65CB6BDB866B_zpsd91c89ee.jpg
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Thats why you cook it properly. Just an FYI, all wild animals can have worms of some kind or another. Found some in the blood pools of a calf moose last fall.
 
bearkilr said:
If you're that worried about parasites, you better stop eating moose meat as well, it's loaded with tapeworm cysts. Cook all wild meat well and you'll be fine.
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It isn't just wild meat you have to watch out for... nor only meat that can be a problem... I can cite the e-coli contamination of Mexican strawberries, Listeriosis outbreak from contaminated Mapleleaf Meats... etc... etc...

Try not to think about it...

wash well, cook well and hope for the best...
 
Yikes! I think I'm going to join the OP's wife (vegetarian).
I don't like bear meat, anyway. Tried it made into pepperettes, was more tolerable, but still not great.
 
When we were still burning coal on the prairies, the slack coal was collected from the annual clean up of the shed.
That was fed to the hogs and they ate it with reckless abandon.
It was done to kill round worms and the picture appears similar to what I recall coming through after the treatment.
 
That's not trichinosis.

Those white worms are pretty common in bears, most often in the throat area.

I first noticed them in my first bear, called the C.O. about it and he said as was mentioned above, that they are a kind of round worm. The bears pick it up from eating dirt containing the eggs and it gets into their system that way. They are harmless to us unless you go around eating dirt.

If they turns you off hunting bears then don't do it.
 
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