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Is it true pork causes trichomonas?
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No: The organism has to be transmitted sexually or from an infected water environment.
Answered 5/13/2017
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Wrong disease: You are thinking about trichinosis. This is a disease contracted by eating under cooked pork or wild game that is infested with the larvae of a parasitic worm.
Answered 3/31/2017
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