{"id":4524,"date":"2013-08-26T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2015-06-04T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T18:33:11","slug":"when-eating-guinea-pig-make-sure-to-ask-for-it-well-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/when-eating-guinea-pig-make-sure-to-ask-for-it-well-done\/2013\/08\/26\/","title":{"rendered":"When Eating Guinea Pig, Make Sure to Ask for it Well Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/14432318_blog1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4534\" alt=\"guinea pig\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/14432318_blog-300x3001.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve written before about how ID doctors are <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/index.php\/ecoli-id-docs-fear-of-infections\/2011\/06\/09\/\" target=\"_blank\">no fun to have at cook outs<\/a>, what with our obsession with well-done hamburgers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there&#8217;s another menu item we can berate grill-meisters on, and that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/minneapolis\/220600281.html\" target=\"_blank\">guinea pig meat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least 81 people fell ill from suspected salmonella poisoning after eating guinea pig meat and other foods from a vendor at a Minneapolis street festival earlier this month, health officials said&#8230;\u00a0Scores of people went to Hennepin County Medical Center and Children\u2019s Hospital of Minneapolis with severe gastrointestinal symptoms after eating the tainted food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So if you decide to order your guinea pig on the rare side, and then get sick, you have no one to blame but yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Because now you&#8217;ve been warned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about how ID doctors are no fun to have at cook outs, what with our obsession with well-done hamburgers. Now, there&#8217;s another menu item we can berate grill-meisters on, and that&#8217;s guinea pig meat: At least 81 people fell ill from suspected salmonella poisoning after eating guinea pig meat and other foods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[369,825],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","tag-food-poisoning","tag-salmonella"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}