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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Re: Sushi
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 20:24:08 EDT
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> I've only had the chance to have sushi a few times, when visiting
> California, and loved it. However, since then, I've read some newspaper
> articles describing various vile and loathsome parasitical infections or
> other ill effects that can arise from eating sushi, 
> Will Martin

From my clipping file (a summary): 

	Sushi found to harbor Parasites.

	Kwizo Sugimachi, MD and colleagues at Kyushu U. cite 178 cases of
Anisakis larval infection resulting from incooked fish in the 15 years between
1969 and 1984.
	Raw Mackerel accounted for 87% of the cases.
	All patients became ill within 12 hours after eating the fish.
	All were treated successfully by endoscopically removing the larvae
and administering antacids. Otherwise the pain would have persisted for several
days until the larvae died.
	Most of the US cases are a Phocanema-like larvae that is usually 
coughed up. Most larvae, however, pass through the systen without causing
any distress.

	Larvae in fish can be killed by smoking or cooking, and also by 
freezing at -20C for three days (so much for fresh fish).

-- 
				Craig Werner
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"