Tapeworms on the rise

[Snitskyman2016]

Don't eat raw fish aka Sashimi!

Anthony Franz says an undercooked salmon salad gave him a 9-foot-tapeworm, and in August he sued the Chicago restaurant that served it to him.

If Franz’s tapeworm tale holds water – and the Chicago Sun-Times reports that the restaurant disputes his account – then it’s just one more data point to add to a growing urban tapeworm problem.

Once the bane of rural Japanese villagers, a paper in the June issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases reports on the spread of the the salmon tapeworm Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense. The parasite, which can reach lengths of 39 feet (12 meters), has been steadily increasing its global distribution and prevalence – mostly among yuppies with a hankering for sashimi and ceviche.

One hospital in Japan reported 14 cases last year, up from 3 cases in 2000. And starting in 2006, the tapeworm has been popping up for the first time in North America and Europe. Meanwhile, farm-raised salmon from South America have been plagued by a closely related tapeworm that normally infects perch and other freshwater fish.

[Snitskyman2016]

In Japanese cuisine, sushi (寿司, 鮨, 鮓?) is vinegar rice, usually topped with other ingredients, such as fish.[1]

Sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi, as distinct from sushi. Combined with hand-formed clumps of rice, it is called nigirizushi (にぎり). Sushi served rolled inside or around nori (dried and pressed layer sheets of seaweed or algae) is makizushi (巻き). Toppings stuffed into a small pouch of fried tofu is inarizushi. Toppings served scattered over a bowl of sushi rice called chirashi-zushi (ちらし).

[MasterSnit]

There are usually around 15,000 at SmackDown tapings every week.

[Champ]

LOL I was just going to say,

so should I not eat any of the wrestling fans? That's cannibalism and I'm not into that anyway.