Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — Cook Your Pork. [ARTICLE]

Cook Your Pork.

There is a disposition on the part of some of our contemporaries to get up a scare about trichime, and they have probably succeeded in alarming any of readers foolish enough to regard this sensationalism ai enterprise. Nevertheless, the people continue to eat pork, and very few of them die of trichiniasis. It will be noticed that in all reports of such cases the names of the victims show them to have been German. The fact seems to be that trichinae cannot survive great heat. If pork is thoroughly cooked, as it always ought to be, it may be eaten without fear of, contracting trichiniasis. ,