Family members gathering together to enjoy a barbecue is one of the staples of the unofficial start of summer, Memorial Day weekend. But one family got an unpleasant surprise when they sat down to enjoy the spoils of a hunting trip, which came in the form of a bear kabob dinner that someone hadn’t cooked properly.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report this week on the unsuspecting family of eight, with six of them coming down with “brain worms”–more formally known as trichinellosis–from the underdone meat during a 2022 reunion:
Two of the sick family members only ate vegetables that were cooked with the meat.
The food-borne disease — which is rarely reported in the US, but generally comes from eating wild game — came to light when one of the family members, 29, went to a Minnesota hospital in July 2022 with a fever, severe muscle aches, swelling…
