Eurosurveillance - Volume 3, Issue 8, 01 August 1998

Two outbreaks of trichinellosis in the Tarn et Garonne, département, France were reported by the departmental health autorities on 2 March 1998, to the Réseau National de Santé Publique (RNSP). An epidemiological investigation began on 3 March in order to

Trichinellosis is endemic among sylvatic mammals in Italy, though it causes only few infections in humans, usually due to the consumption of pork from pigs grazing in wild areas or from wild boars. Most cases of human trichinellosis in Italy are due to th

Trichinellosis is a parasitic disease transmitted to humans by consumption of raw or undercooked meat from animals contaminated by worms of the Trichinella genus. In nature, the life cycle involves most carnivores, omnivores, and numerous rodents. Domesti

Outbreaks of trichinellosis in Italy and France at the end of 1975 implicated the horse, an animal not considered previously to be at risk of this disease. European regulations at that time concerned only the control of pork. The obligation to search for