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Hunters sick after eating bear meat

The Canadian Press

September 29, 2005

TORONTO -- Ten French hunters who ate meat from a black bear they killed during a trip to Canada are being treated for the parasitic disease trichinosis, and several of them remain in a Paris hospital.

Four other people who ate bear meat after the hunters transported it home to France have also contracted the potentially fatal infection, Dr. Jean Dupouy-Camet of University Hospital in Paris said yesterday.

The 10 men killed the black bear Aug. 30 during a hunting trip to northern Quebec, barbecuing some of the meat the same day.

Two of the men brought back bear meat when they returned to their homes in France and shared it with relatives, some of whom also became sick.
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