Outbreak of Human Trichinellosis — Arizona, Minnesota, and South Dakota, 2022
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 27, 2024
Investigation and Results
Index Patient Notification
In July 2022, the Minnesota Department of Health was notified of a man aged 29 years who was hospitalized with fever, severe myalgias, periorbital edema, eosinophilia, and other laboratory abnormalities (Table); health care providers suspected trichinellosis. The patient had sought care for his symptoms, which commenced in early July, four times and had been hospitalized twice over a 17-day period. During his second hospitalization, providers obtained a history of bear meat consumption, and empiric albendazole treatment . . .
