In December, a 54 year-old, New York resident, was reported to have Trichinellosis. His symptoms included: fever, weakness;, rapid heart rate diarrhea, and a dry cough. He had eaten about two pounds of nearly raw, bear meat during the two weeks before illness onset. The meat was purchased from an upstate New York slaughterhouse and had been frozen before consumption. Packages of bear meat from the slaughterhouse were analyzed by the USDA and found to contain Trichinella nativa worms. Trichinellosis is a parasitic disease caused by eating raw, or undercooked, wild game or pork that were infected with the larva of the Trichina worm.