Sent in by JP:
Anthony Franz says an undercooked salmon salad gave him a 9-foot-tapeworm, and in August he sued the Chicago restaurant that served it to him.
If Franz’s tapeworm tale holds water – and the Chicago Sun-Times reports that the restaurant disputes his account – then it’s just one more data point to add to a growing urban tapeworm problem.
Once the bane of rural Japanese villagers, a paper in the June issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases reports on the spread of the the salmon tapeworm Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense. The parasite, which can reach lengths of 39 feet (12 meters), has been steadily increasing its global distribution and prevalence – mostly among yuppies with a hankering for sashimi and ceviche.
Stupid yuppies.
The article goes on to say that if one must eat sushi, one should stick to really super-boring things like tuna. AAAAAGH!!! TUNA??!??!!?
It also points out the recent surge of the fox tapeworm, which is transmitted to humans through canine feces. So there’s ANOTHER thing I can’t eat. What a shitty day.
Nine feet is a lot of tapeworm.
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Umm, what about me? This explains nothing! And even if it was a tapeworm, who am I to discriminate against other living creatures? What if the EARTH decided HUMANS were an unwanted parasite and wanted to go to the planetary courts to sue the galactic planet-food farms, huh? Where would we be then? Sashimi plate, here I come.