Before cooking and consuming the gift from a local hunter, the man remembers handling the raw meat with bare hands. Experts suspect it was at this moment that he was unknowingly exposed to a sneaky ...

A Florida man unknowingly contracted a rare infection from feral pig meat, which infiltrated his defibrillator. After ...

More than four years after a 77-year-old man walked into a Florida hospital with pain in his chest, a new report says preparing and eating feral pig meat was the likely cause of the man’s yearslong ...

A routine meal turned into a medical nightmare for a Florida man in his 70s who unknowingly contracted a rare bacterial infection while handling and eating feral pig meat. The symptoms manifested ...

A Florida man in his 70s developed a rare Brucella suis bacterial infection from handling and eating feral pig meat, which infected his defibrillator years later. Despite multiple hospital visits ...

A year after the ordeal, lingering signs of the infection had faded. At a routine check-up after more than three years, he appeared to remain free of brucellosis. The doctors say the case should ...

The results came back as a Brucella suis infection, which causes a rare bacterial disease in humans and is spread by animals, according to the CDC. There are more than 1 million feral swine living ...