The horror! Doctors found this in someone’s throat after eating sashimi
If you stop to think about it for a little longer, the source of scary food-related news stories is of course inexhaustible, so to keep life at least a little fun, we don’t do it too often. But this one! It really is incredibly frightening…
And not to scare you away from one of our favorite cuisines forever, because with seven hundred reported cases of this kind ever, it’s actually not that bad. But after this woman in Tokyo had eaten a mixed sashimi platter and still had a sore throat days later, doctors found this in her tonsils:
Get the sick bucket
A seriously disgusting worm ewwwwww! I need a moment just from writing this down, so imagine how she must have felt… The worm was almost four centimeters long and of the Pseudoterranova azarasi type, a fourth-stage larva if you really want to know (oh, you don’t?). This worm can be found in raw or undercooked sea fish. The case was reported by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, where doctors and researchers from all over the world come together. If you have an irresistible urge to learn more about it, you can read the study here. And here it is, the creepy little thing:
Say aaaa
The twenty-five-year-old woman in question had suffered from a sore throat for five days, and when she went to the doctor, a black, moving worm was spotted in her left tonsil during a medical examination. Fortunately, it could be removed with tweezers, and the symptoms quickly subsided afterward.
Exceptional
Exceptional in many ways, this case. First of all, it turns out that this particular little parasite, if it does get inside you, mainly causes irritation inside the stomach. So finding it in the throat was already unusual. Secondly, and we think it’s important to mention this, it really happens extremely rarely. The stories aren’t pleasant, but honestly, if you choose to eat raw fish (or raw meat, for that matter), you know yourself that you’re taking a small risk, right?
As if your nose were bleeding
If you want to follow proper etiquette, you know it’s not really acceptable to cut your sashimi into pieces just to subject them to a larva check. And honestly, I usually have a pretty useful but selective memory for this kind of thing, and I’ll have forgotten all about it as soon as a plate of really good raw fish is placed in front of me… But what do you think: will this affect how much sushi and sashimi you eat?
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