Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — An Inch of Sausage with 40,000 Parasites. [ARTICLE]

An Inch of Sausage with 40,000 Parasites.

[Peoria (Ill.) Dispatch.] It has been found that three men. who have ' been seriously ill at Fairview, Fulton county, for the past few days, are suffering from trichiniasis. A piece of sausage whieh the men had recently made, and of which they had partaken in a raw state, was submitted to a Peoria doctor, who estimates that in some I portions there were fully 40,000 parasites to the cubic inch. The men are very low. They had tjeenengagedin making sausage, and eaten awyednwderable quantity, but had frequently tasted it to see if it had the right flavor. All hopes of the recovery of the men are not yet abandoned.