The Dangers of Eating Raw Fish

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The report in this issue of the Journal 1 of the extraction during emergency surgery of a 4-cm red worm from the peritoneal cavity of a young man who habitually ate sushi is an uncomfortable reminder of the potential danger of eating raw fish. Parasitism is a common phenomenon, and most animals, cold- and warm-blooded alike, are the hosts of a variety of helminths that are potentially infective to humans. Parasitologists (and fishermen) tell us that most fish have worms. Infection would be more frequent in humans except that most worms are removed in processing or killed in cooking. Eating raw . . .

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