Story out of Calgary, Alberta:
A man treated at a Calgary hospital shortly after eating raw wild salmon from a grocery store was stricken by tiny parasitic worms in his stomach, according to a new medical report.
Doctors say the alarming medical case is the first time the tiny toothed worms have been found in a human after consuming Canadian store-bought salmon.
But as uncooked culinary trends like sashimi and ceviche grow in popularity, doctors warn that the rare parasite could become more common.
According to the report, a 50-year-old man arrived in the emergency department with vomiting and upper abdomen pain about one hour after eating raw wild salmon. The pain persisted for at least six hours and raised his fever to 39 C (102.2 F).
After x-rays and stool tests found “nothing remarkable,” doctors sent an endoscope camera inside the patient’s stomach.
That’s when doctors spotted the tiny worms -- between 1 to 2 centimetres long -- wriggling inside several stomach ulcers. Two worms were removed and identified as anisakis, a parasitic worm that lives in fish and aquatic animals and leads to the condition anisakiasis. Cont.
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