/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7949894
The chance of getting something like tapeworm from beef in the first world is practically nil. The regulation on meat nowdays is extremely thorough due to the potential for the transmission of quite a few muscle-borne parasites. As for sashimi, we keep hearing of asian people getting massive Spirometra sparganosis or Diphyllobothrium infections from their diets of raw fish. This is possible in countries where the food regulation and quality control is lower, but I think less likely over here. Having said that, I do vividly remember someone finding a larval Pseudoterranova sp. in the cod fillet they got from the cantine of the institution where I studied for my Masters (which only made it funnier), it drew quite a crow of Parasitologists as you can imagine. So these things do slip through the net moreso with fish, I think because of the fact that they are not intensively farmed often, so they are subject to the full force of the ecosystem unlike farm animals.

I can't help but feel Asians bring it upon themselves with this shit though, there is a tapeworm (Taenia asiatica) which has only just really been considered as a human pathogen, and is limited to rural areas of Asia where the practice of eating raw pork liver can be observed. With that in mind, if you eat raw pork liver because it is a delicacy rather than cooking it, you deserve a fucking tapeworm.

>>7949530
I should probably give a bit more of an answer, beyond what is detailed above, giving some blood to bedbugs, and letting various insect vectors bite me to compare how much they hurt, No. I often get the pang of scientific curiosity but the only thing that stops me is having to explain to a doctor how I know I am about the 4th person in recorded history to obtain an Ostertagia infection.