Re: trichinosis laboratory analysis
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Originally Posted by
RyoTHC
That's a really good question.. I'd be on the fence, but let's be honest if I'm going to get it, it'll be when I dress or butcher the bear as without fail I cut myself each time lol
You cannot contract trichinosis via open cut. The larvae need to be digested in order to transfer to human host. The larvae are present in the skeletal muscle tissue. I have accidently cut myself a few times while butchering bear. it happens
Re: trichinosis laboratory analysis
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Originally Posted by
Sylus
I don't see the point in throwing it out. Even if the bear doesn't have tric, it probably has something else. They are scavengers, just go 160, or 170 for good measure and let 'er buck.
Also, as I understand it you wouldn't get tric from getting bear blood or meat in a cut. To get trichinosis you have to ingest a decent amount of the larvae which sit dormant in the meat of the bear in calcified cysts. That is until something ingests it and the stomach acids of that something dissolves the cysts letting the little dudes free. Even so, tric sounds pretty mild to me, in a game of would you rather I would take trichinosis over a fair number of other diseases.
Correctamundo!!
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Why would anyone knowingly eat worms?? There is only one thing to do with a bear!!!
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I don't believe the lab does this anymore. There was a thread here on HBC years back that mentioned it. I made a phone call or few and was told the lab is no longer there/offering the test and to simply presume that all Bear have trich and to handle/cook the meat accordingly.
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Originally Posted by
Onesock
Why would anyone knowingly eat worms?? There is only one thing to do with a bear!!!
If you eat meat, you eat worms. Hopefully dead ones. Mmmmmmmm
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Originally Posted by
RackStar
The best way would be to stop eating filthy animals such as a bear
Better stop eating pork ( trich)Turkey ( salmonella) as well then ... kidding , just cook it properly
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Dog food, if the pooch will even eat it lol.
No clue how you guys can enjoy bear meat knowing it could be infested with worms.
Il stick to a moose deer elk diet
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Originally Posted by
IslandWanderer
I cut myself dressing out a bear this spring- still healthy. 20 odd years ago my knife slipped while skinning a yote a buried a good portion of it in my other hand- sweet scar to this day.
The point in red could be up for debate :)
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You should stop shooting bears if you don't do the homework and learn how to process and cook it. Tric is only released when your stomach acids break down the casing around the worm. Cooking kills the dormant worm. It is not in the blood.
Liver fluke in moose, tric in pigs and a host of things in rabbits.
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Originally Posted by
tigrr
You should stop shooting bears if you don't do the homework and learn how to process and cook it. Tric is only released when your stomach acids break down the casing around the worm. Cooking kills the dormant worm. It is not in the blood.
Liver fluke in moose, tric in pigs and a host of things in rabbits.
Well, I don't need to know much about trich at all to know to cook my meat property, doesn't really hurt me thinking I could have got it from the blood, if anything it just made me be more careful lol
Worms or otherwise I'll never stop shooting bears, they are delicious, if I got one that was sub par is grind it all up and cook it / feed it to my dogs. Nothing goes to waste here.