How long will a mild case of trichinosis take to recover?
I do not know if there is such a thing as a “mild” case of trichinosis. How have you determined that your pigs have trichinosis. I think you would have to slaughter the pig to even know for sure that trichinosis is present. Trichinosis is a disease of man and other animals caused by a tiny parasitic worm, Trichinella spiralis. Humans may be infected by eating “improperly cooked” meat of domestic pigs or occasionally the meat of wild boars, wild pigs, or other animals such as horses. A number of wild animals including raccoons, opossums, skunks, foxes and rodents are known to be infected and serve as a reservoir of the disease. During the five year period of 1986-1990, between 27 and 109 cases in humans per year were reported in the United States. The number of human cases of trichinosis has declined dramatically in the United States in the last 40 years. Some investigators estimate that there are as many as 100,000 or more human exposures per year in the United States but nearly all of
