Pappy--

Regarding bear, I was told of a group of hunters who cooked meat from a bear they had killed, and afterward came down with trichinosis. The information online says that cooking meat might not kill all of that parasite.

Along that line, my vet in Florida stopped hunting wild pigs after four of his friends contracted brucellosis, apparently through small cuts or scratches on their hands as they processed pigs they had killed.

Stuff is lurking out there, just waiting....

Larry