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\b[<Anthrax>, generalized suppurative or septic disease, and generalized <tuberculosis> are clear examples of conditions requiring rejection of the whole carcass; extensive parasitic disease supplies further examples.] The reason for <whole-carcass condemnation> is systemic disease or distribution too extensive to be dealt with as an isolated local lesion.
With <anthrax>, infection is not a harmless change confined to one removable piece of meat. Infected animal products also pose risks during handling, and eating infected raw or undercooked meat can cause gastrointestinal <anthrax>. The appropriate conclusion is exclusion from the food supply, not a promise that ordinary preparation will make a suspect carcass acceptable.<About Anthrax by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention>[Exposure through infected animal products and contaminated meat]{ref}
Generalized <pyemia> or <septicaemia>, with disseminated infection, multiple suppurative foci or systemic deterioration, likewise makes trimming one visible lesion an inadequate response. Generalized <tuberculosis>, particularly with widespread lesions or associated wasting, differs from an isolated local abnormality. For a clearly identified modern comparison, current United States meat-inspection rules require condemnation for generalized <tuberculosis> and for disease presenting a food-poisoning risk, expressly including <septicaemia> and <pyemia>. Those are current comparative criteria, not rules to attribute to English law in 1864.<Current United States meat-inspection regulations, 9 CFR Part 311>[§311.2(a), generalized tuberculosis; §311.16, systemic disease and food-poisoning risk]{ref}
Parasitic meat was already a concrete contemporary concern. <On Poisoning by Diseased Pork by Julius Althaus>, published in 1864, discusses <trichinellosis> from infected pork. <Trichinella> larvae in muscle can be missed by casual naked-eye inspection; the historical importance of the <microscope> is that apparently ordinary flesh can contain parasites. Widespread infestation cannot be assumed to be confined to an easily discarded patch. Cysticerci in meat are another foodborne parasitic hazard, but exact inspection and disposition depend on the organism and distribution, and should not be invented as a universal 1864 statutory rule.<On Poisoning by Diseased Pork by Julius Althaus>[1864, opening discussion of trichinae in pork and microscopic investigation]{ref}<DPDx: Trichinellosis>[Life cycle: ingestion of larvae in infected meat]{ref}
A useful biological distinction is that eating viable cysticerci in beef or pork can cause intestinal <taeniasis>; human <cysticercosis> follows ingestion of <Taenia solium> eggs. These are different routes and disease stages, so one should not describe cysticercosis as simply the direct result of eating pork containing cysticerci.<DPDx: Taeniasis>[Life cycle: cysticerci in meat produce adult intestinal tapeworms]{ref}<DPDx: Cysticercosis>[Life cycle: ingestion of eggs and tissue infection]{ref}
The contemporary English legal framework is independently verifiable. Section 2 of the <Nuisances Removal Act for England (Amendment) Act 1863> empowered inspection and seizure of food appearing diseased, unsound, unwholesome or unfit, followed by a justice's disposal order where unfitness was established. It did not supply a disease-by-disease table equating every local lesion with whole-carcass rejection. Thus the answer gives diseases and the medical reason for excluding the whole animal, while keeping localized lesions, generalized disease and legal procedure distinct.<Nuisances Removal Act for England (Amendment) Act 1863>[26 & 27 Vict. c.117, §2; enacted 28 July 1863]{ref}
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