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Of Mice And Men Trichinosis The scientific name is Trichinella spiralis. The organism of Trichina is a small roundworm that causes the disease of trichinosis. The worm is a parasite. It lives by feeding on other animals. Trichina is in the Trichina family. One can get trichinosis by eating uncooked meat. If an animal is alive and has the disease it will be fine, yet the disease will leave in a period of time, but if it is killed with the disease than the meat will maintain being contaminated. The larvae usually lives in the chest and neck. The larvae comes from small cysts. The cysts attach themselves to the intestine, the larvae that survive become adult worms in 3-4 days. The largest worm grows to a size of about ¼ inch. The females burrow into the intestine wall where they produce much larvae. The larvae enter the blood stream and get carried all over the body. When they leave the blood stream, mice, men, meat, trichina, larvae, disease, cysts, trichinosis, stream, intestine, blood, worm, uncooked, small, should, pork, occur, muscles, lives, leave, develop, cause, animals, ½, yet, years, worms, wall, vomiting, united, trichinella, time, through, thoroughly, themselves, symptoms, swelling