Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LOL Roasted mouse isn't bad, though. Op 16-mei-06, om 21:25 heeft Walt Johnson het volgende geschreven: > 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >