ANCHORAGE, Alaska — If walrus is in your dinner plans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends you make sure it’s well done. The federal health agency warned of the effects of ...

If walrus is in your dinner plans, make sure it's cooked well done, health officials recommend. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials are warning the public of the risk of eating ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . State and federal investigators alerted health care providers in Alaska about two outbreaks of trichinellosis ...

Walruses are worm food, literally. Nearly a dozen people in Alaska have been infected with trichinosis, a disease induced by a type of parasitic roundworm, after eating undercooked walrus meat between ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced reports of two trichinellosis outbreaks in Alaska related to the consumption of walrus meat. These are the first multiple-case outbreaks ...

Ten people in Alaska were recently infected with what is now a relatively rare parasitic worm that they got from eating walrus meat, according to a new report. The cases occurred between July 2016 and ...

During July 2016-May 2017, the Alaska Division of Public Health (ADPH) investigated two outbreaks with five cases in each. They were the first multiple-case outbreaks of walrus-associated ...

The first sign came when a teenage girl from Gambell ended up in the hospital last summer. She was having trouble walking. She was weak and suffering with fever, rash and swollen, painful legs. Then ...