undercooked bear meat. In a report published Thursday, the CDC identified the likely sickness as trichinellosis, a parasitic infection that causes muscle pain, fever and facial swelling.

While it is legal to have and eat bear meat in America, it is illegal to sell it. It is also illegal to hunt bears in some states. Trichinellosis is a parasitic infection usually caused by ...

Scientists have decoded the DNA of the parasitic worm that causes trichinosis, a disease linked to eating raw or undercooked pork or carnivorous wild game animals, such as bear and walrus.

Out of 34 surveyed attendees at the gathering, 22 (65%) reported consuming undercooked bear meat at the gathering. Of those 22 people, 10 (45%) experienced symptoms consistent with trichinellosis ...