Bear meat kebabs at family reunion led to schadenfreude outbreak of roundworm disease
Six family members were sickened with a rare parasitic disease caused by roundworm larvae after they ate kebabs made of bear meat. Schadenfreude in action.
A report published this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed new details of the outbreak, which occurred in July 2022 at a nine-person family reunion in South Dakota.
One family member brought meat to the reunion from a black bear hunted in northern Canada. The meat had been frozen in a household freezer for 45 days. Hunting black bears…