(1) He identified the nematode in undercooked pork that is responsible for trichinosis , a debilitating and sometimes deadly muscle disease.(2) Lastly, they are valuable for use in medical research on multiple births, organ transplants, birth defects and diseases such as leprosy, typhus and trichinosis .(3) For instance, pork was prohibited so the Jews would not get the disease of trichinosis and the laws of salting meat were a way of preserving the meat before refrigeration was invented.(4) The animals harbor the lice and fleas that spawn serious diseases such as typhus, trichinosis , and infectious jaundice.(5) However, the autopsy results of 1976 show that he was suffering from pneumonia, tuberculosis and trichinosis , a deadly combination.
