This type of worm causes the disease trichinosis. Abdominal symptoms can appear 1–2 days after eating contaminated meat, and other symptoms can appear 2–8 weeks later. Prescription drugs can ...

Symptoms of trichinosis can emerge within 1 to 2 days of consuming the contaminated, undercooked pork — but may not show for up to a week after ingestion (5). Once the larvae enter your ...

Hirschmann, an infectious disease specialist, said Mozart's symptoms did match those of an unspecified epidemic disease going around Vienna at the time. Trichinosis was not identified until the 1800s, ...