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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...

Federal officials this week made public details of two outbreaks of Trichinella infections in Alaska in the past 12 months, both linked to undercooked walrus meat. Long associated with undercooked ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...