Florida man eats feral pig meat, contracts rare biothreat bacteria

Florida Man Hospitalized With Rare Infection After Eating Feral Pig Meat

If you kill a feral pig, you probably shouldn’t eat it. This life lesson comes to us from yet another CDC case study. These studies occasionally veer into the outlandish, like the one about a guy who got a tick-related infection from a kidney transplant. And now, there’s a Florida man whose heart implant became infected after he ate some feral pig meat. A pastor in his 70s developed a chronic illness that was eventually linked to a bacteria tran…

Florida man eats feral pig meat, contracts rare biothreat bacteria

It took nearly two years for doctors to figure out the cause of his chest pain.