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Additional Resources

• The text of the original version of this article was taken from the public domain resource at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/trichinosis/factsht_trichinosis.htm
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Trichinosis Surveillance, United States, 1987-1990, MMWR 1991;40:(SS-3)35-42.
• Moorhead A, Grunenwald PE, Dietz VJ, Schantz PM. Trichinellosis in the United States, 1991-1996: Declining but not gone. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1999; 60:66-69.
• US FDA regulations - Title 9 - Chapter 3 - Part 318 - includes "Prescribed treatment of pork and products containing pork to destroy trichinae."

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