AZHunter
Iowa Boy At Heart
I think the important take home message is cook all venison thoroughly (well done/ maybe medium well) just like you would with pork to avoid Trichinosis. Similarly, just like pregnant/nursing women shouldn't change cat litter because of the Toxoplasma risk, I wouldn't recommend pregnant women helping field dress or process a harvested deer. At least that's my interpretation of the article.
AZHunter
Iowa Boy At Heart
[Yuck, might as well eat a shoe if thats the case.]
I don't disagree with you at all, DOR. I tend to cook my venison (elk and deer) on the medium/medium well side (probably thorough enough). Just trying to clarify what science has shown. However, from a somewhat personal experience, my wife's cousin ate undercooked pork in Mexico and got Trich. She's spent the last several years (decade +?) with an un-removable roundworm in her brain from that experience. She's got all kinds of medical issues and there is no cure, from what I understand. Thus, my wife is extrememly paranoid about cooking meat known to contain cysts.
I don't disagree with you at all, DOR. I tend to cook my venison (elk and deer) on the medium/medium well side (probably thorough enough). Just trying to clarify what science has shown. However, from a somewhat personal experience, my wife's cousin ate undercooked pork in Mexico and got Trich. She's spent the last several years (decade +?) with an un-removable roundworm in her brain from that experience. She's got all kinds of medical issues and there is no cure, from what I understand. Thus, my wife is extrememly paranoid about cooking meat known to contain cysts.
