Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!bes From: khan@remus.rutgers.edu (Farrukh Shah Khan) Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam Subject: Re: Question regarding Pork Message-ID: <1990Dec5.082939.2377@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 5 Dec 90 08:29:39 GMT Sender: bes@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi) Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 20 Approved: bes@tybalt.caltech.edu Here is the name of the bacteria which is found in pork and some other animals. Bacteria: TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS. Desease: TRICHINOSIS. Symptoms: Within 2-28 days vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain. Later muscular stiffness, fever, rashes. Reference:"Food Service Sanitation" EFNR Association John Wiley and Sons. -- Live long and prosper. Farrukh Shah Khan. khan@remus.rutgers.edu "MEN MUST CHANGE BEFORE THE KINGDOMS" (Jesus) "Peace is as much an art to learn as war" Sen. Matsunaga (Hawaii)