Volume 24, Number 8—August 2018
Dispatch
Outbreak of Trichinella T9 Infections Associated with Consumption of Bear Meat, Japan
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![Rash on the back of a patient (patient 10 in Table 1) with confirmed Trichinella T9 infection associated with consumption of bear meat, Japan, December 2016. Patient had onset of macular and popular, confluent, and pruritic rash with diffuse blanching on the scalp, face, chest, abdomen, back, and upper and lower extremities. Photo taken 24 days after the patient had consumed the implicated bear meat.](/eid/images/17-2117-F2.jpg)
Figure 2. Rash on the back of a patient (patient 10 in Table 1) with confirmed Trichinella T9 infection associated with consumption of bear meat, Japan, December 2016. Patient had onset of macular and papular, confluent, and pruritic rash with diffuse blanching on the scalp, face, chest, abdomen, back, and upper and lower extremities. Photo taken 24 days after the patient had consumed the implicated bear meat.
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