I need to know the name of bacteria or worm that comes from eating contaminated pork and affects the brain?

No one seems to have gotten this one right, so it seems I have to.





The name of the pork parasite that affects the brain is NOT trichinella but Taenia solium. It encysts in the brain and so causes a disease called neurocycticercosis.





Neurocysticercosis is treatable, and has nothing to do with mad cow or salmonella or trichinella.





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I need to know the name of bacteria or worm that comes from eating contaminated pork and affects the brain?
trichina worm
Reply:botulism...the bacteria is clostridium botulinum
Reply:Taenia worm, salmonella poisoning
Reply:um... could it be the mad cow disease?
Reply:trichinella is the worm. its larvae can live in pork muscle (what we eat as meat) and cause an infection called trichinosis if you eat raw pork. Now the good news. Because of improved meat inspection standards in the USA, most pork products can be cooked to medium or medium well and still have virtually no chance of passing along this disease. Proper meat handling and storage is very important though,
Reply:Trichinella spiralis..a parasite ( worm)just what others said it can be found in pork muscles ( but not in canned goods). In canned foods, a bacteria Clostridium botulinum is the culprit.
Reply:Food safety is basically temperature and a time . Four hundred degrees for ten minutes will kill all bacteria known to man and make all food safe to eat. Larva from parasites are cooked. The temperature can be as low as boiling or two hundred and twelve degrees for thirty minutes to kill bacteria and yeast in all food. If the food has gone bad first the flavor may not be good enough to eat. It is best to wash off the salmonella slime then cook the chicken. Chemical poisons like herbicides may still be a poison. Heavy metals will still be there.
Reply:no need to worry, I think our nation has just about arrived at the no brainer era.