In the article the person said they had been getting the feral hog meat from a hunter who had gifted him raw meat several times and that he handled it with his

In the article the person said they had been getting the feral hog meat from a hunter who had gifted him raw meat several times and that he handled it with his bare hands while preparing it and then cooking it an eating it. The doctors surmised it was most likely his handling it with bare hands that was the vector of transmission, not eating the cooked meat.