Worms in deer backstrap

[kwaynem]

My wife was cutting up a backstrap for my youngest daughter to take home and asked me to come look at it it had little holes in it and I cut it at the hole and you could tell something had burrowed in it I looked it up and the net said it wasn’t uncommon and not dangerous to humans I cut those sections out but it looks like I’m the only one that will be eating it

 

[Okie4570]

I'm not hungry enough I guess lol. First time I've seen that in deer meat.

 

[Blackdog]

hard pass, never seen that before. What part of the state?

 

[jeepjackazz]

"You'll notice muscle worms when butchering venison. They look like 1- to 3-inch pieces of white string. Unfortunately, they often inhabit the backstrap and hams of the deer, making them particularly annoying. Like sarcocystis, the worms are harmless to both deer and humans"

 

[Okvet03]

Looks like blood vessels but I'm not a pathologist. Cook it up!

 

[kwaynem]

hard pass, never seen that before. What part of the state?

Central Osage county and west some

 

[Shadowrider]

You can see through them? Pretty pale looking. Ghost worms?

 

[Hirschkopf]

The "holes" look like cross sections of blood vessels to me. I am a pathologist and had forgotten that deer "muscle worms" exist. Some keyboarding led to their likely name "Parelaphostrongylus andersoni", which sounds like something I might have memorized for a test 30 years ago. None of the "scientific" sources I found contained anything useful, including if they are actually big enough to make the structures (normal vessel or a migraton tract is the question) photographed. The general advice of the hunting community is "pick out any worms you can see; cook and enjoy the rest"

 

[kwaynem]

The "holes" look like cross sections of blood vessels to me. I am a pathologist and had forgotten that deer "muscle worms" exist. Some keyboarding led to their likely name "Parelaphostrongylus andersoni", which sounds like something I might have memorized for a test 30 years ago. None of the "scientific" sources I found contained anything useful, including if they are actually big enough to make the structures (normal vessel or a migraton tract is the question) photographed. The general advice of the hunting community is "pick out any worms you can see; cook and enjoy the rest"

I couldn’t find any it was just a couple spots that looked like where they dug in and I cut about 1/2 inch of both sides out and threw away

 

[Johnny]

I wonder if that deer had its Covid shot?