One of two things then happens, depending on the intensity of the infection. Either death ensues or a successful effort is made by nature to throw an enclosure, or cyst, around each of the teeming parasites, which then become dormant, although they remain alive for years. Don't blame your doctor. All that the best doctor can do as yet is to conserve the patient's strength and try to relive the painful, local symptoms as they appear. What tehese symptoms are, the layman had much better not worry about.
Trichinosis can simulate to some degree almost any other malady.
That pain in your arm or leg may be arthritis or theumatism or it may be trichinosis. That pain in your back may mean a gall bladder involvement, but it may mean trichinosis. Dr. Samuel C. Gould, a Washington health offical, who has made an extensive study of trichinosis, states that the average American consumer eats at least 200 infested port meals during his lifetime. Every bit of pork would have to go under a microscope to make that determination. The Publish Health service advises consumers to cook the pork throughly in order to kill the trichina worms.