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. 2024 May 23;73(20):456–459. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7320a2

FIGURE.

The figure is a series of four photographs illustrating microscopic examination of encapsulated larvae in a direct black bear meat muscle squash prep (A), larvae liberated from artificial digested bear meat (B), motile larvae viewed with differential interference contrast microscopy (C and D) from black bear meat suspected as the source of an outbreak of human Trichinella nativa infections in Arizona, Minnesota, and South Dakota in 2022.

Microscopic examination of encapsulated larvae in a direct black bear meat muscle squash prep (A), larvae liberated from artificially digested bear meat (B), and motile larvae viewed with differential interference contrast microscopy (C and D)* from black bear meat suspected as the source of an outbreak of human Trichinella nativa infections — Arizona, Minnesota, and South Dakota, 2022

Photos/Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, CDC

* Scale bars = 100 µm.