[Leica] PESO - Today's plate is tomorrow's bait

[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

Not to make Sonny angry with me again but if you roll around on the 
floor with dogs (eat seagoing cockroaches) fleas will find you.

Walt

Jeffery Smith wrote:

>We don't have just parasites...we also have cholera and hepatitis (our
>sewage disposal practices aren't very well monitored out near the fish and
>oyster beds). Back in the 1970's, there was a cholera epidemic in Abbeville.
>When the news crew went out to places were raw oysters were being consumed,
>everyone laughed about the danger of cholera. A week later, most of them
>were in the hospital tethered to IV drips.
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>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA
>http://www.400tx.com
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>From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marty
>Deveney
>Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 8:50 PM
>To: lug@leica-users.org
>Subject: [Leica] PESO - Today's plate is tomorrow's bait
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>>As far as I'm concerned, it's TODAY'S bait. Parasitologists tend to 
>>pass on raw wild-caught food.
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>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).  
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>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.
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>I'm not saying everyone should eat sushi, I'm just saying that irrational
>fear of parasites is unjustified.
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>I have some Leica photos of sushi that I will post tonight, to try to keep
>this on topic.
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>Later,
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>Marty
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