• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Cambridge Bay; Canada; Greenland; Nunavut; North West Passage; Aleutian Islands; walrus*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.308.500; http://www.eurosurveillance.org/images/dynamic/EE/V14N44/art19383.pdf

Five cases of trichinellosis with onset of symptoms in September 2009, were reported in France, and were probably linked to the consumption of meat from a grizzly bear in Cambridge Bay in Nunavut, Canada. Travellers should be aware of the risks of eating raw or rare meat products in arctic regions, particularly game meat such as bear or walrus meat. Case detection and description On 5 October 2009, the French National Reference Centre (NRC) for Trichinella was informed about a possible case of trichinellosis in an individual returning from Nunavut, Canada. This very asthenic patient had high eosinophil counts and elevated plasma levels for muscle enzymes. Specific antibodies were detected by ELISA and Western-blot (Diasorin & LDBio, France). The patient belonged to a group of five marine navigators who had travelled from the Aleutian Islands to Greenland and crossed the North-West Passage