Well researched, practical information , on being and staying in good health inexpensively ¿ Trichinosis causes fever, muscle aches and swelling around the eyes. ¿ The ordinary tapeworm is from twenty to fifty feet long. ¿ Our present hog crop may provide us with over 60, 000, 000 trichinae infested meals. ¿ Hot dogs are a potential source of a type of organism causing sporotrichinosis, a skin disease characterized by a string of molecules developing upward along the path of the lymphatic. ¿ Hookworms are spread to man by the consumption of pork. ¿ The pigs were actually used for two purposes, to clean up the mess, and then to be sold as pork.