Should raw sushi-eaters be worried about tapeworms?
- Written by Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
There are multiple opportunities to detect tapeworm cysts and larvae before the sushi makes it to our plate.EpicurrenceAustralians love their sushi and consume more than 115 million servings of seaweed-wrapped rolls and sashimi (slices of raw fish) per year.
But a story doing the rounds this week is enough to scare anyone off their raw salmon...