For the vast majority of us, we can eat live worms with no ill effects – as gross as that sounds, it happens every day,” the ...

For parasitic worms of the genus Anisakis, life typically goes like this: after floating through the ocean in an egg, they hatch as wriggling larvae with a peculiar desire—to be eaten. Small ...

Choosing the wrong rice, overdoing the wasabi, using day-old nori... there are plenty of common mistakes that will ruin homemade sushi, but there's one that takes the cake. Before you start slicing up ...

A lot of sashimi bites back. “Sushi parasites” have been increasing exponentially over the past half-century, according to findings published Thursday in the journal Global Change Biology. Led by the ...

Diners may be more likely to utter those words today than in decades past, as the abundance of parasitic Anisakis worms infecting fishes around the globe is now 283 times what it was in the 1970s, ...

An Anisakis worm is seen in a filet of salmon. These parasitic worms can be up to 2 centimeters in length and are found in the flesh of raw and undercooked fish. (Togabi / Wikimedia Commons) (CN) — A ...

Well, it’s probably there because the odds on its presence have gone way up in the past 40 years. But such parasites are still much more of a health problem for whales and dolphins than they are for ...

A new study published in the journal Global Change Biology in March 2020 on the occurrence of certain worms in raw or undercooked seafood, in the form of sushi, sashimi, nigiri, etc., reports an ...

The next time you eat sashimi, nigiri or other forms of raw fish, consider doing a quick check for worms. A new study led by the University of Washington finds dramatic increases in the abundance of a ...

A new study finds dramatic increases in the abundance of a worm that can be transmitted to humans who eat raw or undercooked seafood. Its 283-fold increase in abundance since the 1970s could have ...