CNN: Alaskan Salmon May Have Tapeworm
(Editor’s Note: If you have a sensitive stomach, read along at your own risk. While this is knowledge you should have if you eat raw or undercooked fish, it might be too much for you!) One of the most gruesome parasites known is the tapeworm, a species of digestive tract-invading parasites that includes Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense (or the Japanese broad tapeworm). While this worm was thought to infect only fish in Asia, a study published last week in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, reports that wild salmon caught in Alaska has also been infected by this parasite. (We don’t always trust the CDC, but...
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