Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hell, Guess I'll have to stop putting the keyboard in my mouth, now what will I snack on? Philippe Orlent wrote: > I read today that the biggest reservoir for bacterial contamination > is one's keyboard. > > > Op 16-mei-06, om 03:50 heeft Marty Deveney het volgende geschreven: > >> >>> As far as I'm concerned, it's TODAY'S bait. Parasitologists tend to >>> pass on >>> raw wild-caught food. >> >> >> As Jeffrey knows, I am also parasitologist. I am also risk-averse, >> but with seafood, the overwhelming risk is always from bacterial >> contamination. The only significant fish-borne parasites are the >> broad tapeworm of fish and Anasakis simplex (links below) and both >> are comparatively rare and entirely treatable. There are a few >> hundred cases in japan a year, out of several billion raw fish meals >> consumed. That's good odds. Take a look at your local health >> department website and find what the rate of bacterial food >> poisoning is in any city in the developed world and you'll see what >> the real risk is. >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=mmed.section.4713 >> http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/172/3/329 >> If you don't like sushi, well, you don't like it, but if you do, >> parasites are no reason to get altogether too paranoid about eating >> it. I ate sushi and sashimi by the bucketload in Japan earlier this >> year and make it at home frequently, from a range of farmed and >> wild-caught fish. Getting in your car is much riskier. I wonder >> how many people die in car crashes in Ontario, where new laws >> require any fish that is to be served raw to undergo a compulsory >> period of freezing (really looking after their population, that >> local government). >> >> Of course, if you're talking raw bear meat, or some of the other >> things I've been offered in my travels, forget it. The risk posed >> by Trichinella (a nematode that, among other things, encysts in >> muscle in human cases and is not really easily treated) and other >> parasites that are prevalent in terrestrial animals throughout much >> of the world is real. In a few countries (including New Zealand and >> Australia) many of these critters are absent. >> >> I'm not saying everyone should eat sushi, I'm just saying that >> irrational fear of parasites is unjustified. >> >> I have some Leica photos of sushi that I will post tonight, to try >> to keep this on topic. >> >> Later, >> >> Marty >> >> >> -- >> ___________________________________________________ >> Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >