Put away the soy sauce and wasabi and get ready to be grossed out. A Fresno man and avid lover of sushi — more specifically, salmon sashimi — pulled a 5 1/2 foot-long tapeworm out his own body. It had ...
He told an emergency room physician he had a liking for raw fish — specifically, salmon sashimi. It's what the 30-year-old man, from Fresno, Calif., suspected had landed him in the bathroom with ...
Tapeworm infections were common in the late 19th century due to a lack of food safety laws and meat inspections. Historical accounts from Muncie detail tapeworms growing to dozens of feet long inside ...