CDC: Family Contracts ‘Brain Worms’ After Eating Black Bear Meat

CDC: Family Contracts ‘Brain Worms’ After Eating Black Bear Meat
A female Baribal American black bear and her newborn cubs in Port-Saint-Pere, near Nantes, western France, on May 3, 2019. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images
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Six family members from across the United States who attended a family reunion contracted a foodborne disease after cooking black bear meat.

The family got together for a meal of black bear meat, which one family member had brought from a hunt in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, roughly two months prior. The meal included kebobs (kebabs) made from black bear meat, cooked with vegetables.