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Scientists Find Parasites in Almost Every Fish From a Recent Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected
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alapakala quokk.au alapakala@quokk.au
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Drusas fedia.io Drusas@fedia.io
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Article fails to mention that these fish are typically deep frozen, which kills the parasites. And not all fish parasites infect humans.

This is concerning, but those are important to consider.

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frongt lemmy.zip frongt@lemmy.zip
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Article fails to mention that these fish are typically deep frozen, which kills the parasites. And not all fish parasites infect humans. This is concerning, but those are important to consider.

Yup, they're flash frozen pretty soon after catch. Anything lingering will be killed by cooking.

Wild animals carry disease. Who knew!

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alapakala quokk.au alapakala@quokk.au
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Article fails to mention that these fish are typically deep frozen, which kills the parasites. And not all fish parasites infect humans. This is concerning, but those are important to consider.

Why I tagged as #epidemic 😁

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Einskjaldi lemmy.world Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
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For a big fish, it's how many parasite they have not if there's one or not. When you're a giant fish the number matters. The article mostly talks about possible allergic reactions to some of the parasite antigens which can persist after the parasite is killed by freezing.

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deft lemmy.wtf deft@lemmy.wtf
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I think most fish have parasites???

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acockworkorange mander.xyz acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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Why I tagged as #epidemic 😁

Tagged?

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acockworkorange mander.xyz acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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I think most fish have parasites???

You don't know what you think?

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alapakala quokk.au alapakala@quokk.au
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Tagged?

pylova&piefed instances can tag posts& comments to find them later. For paper posts like these, it makes it easier to describe the essences of the papers.

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Valsa mander.xyz Valsa@mander.xyz
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Is that remarkable? The authors make the prevalence of parasites as the big takeaway from their study, but bizarrely they don't cite any other papers of typical parasite load in this fish species or others. I need a frame of reference.

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finallymadeanaccount lemmy.world finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
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For a big fish, it's how many parasite they have not if there's one or not. When you're a giant fish the number matters. The article mostly talks about possible allergic reactions to some of the parasite antigens which can persist after the parasite is killed by freezing.

See, the parasite is killed by freezing, but you're still eating dead parasite bodies. That's what really gives fish it's flavour. Fish is uniformly tasteless, but ... parasites! Sorry, Big Fin, I had to expose the conspiracy.

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deft lemmy.wtf deft@lemmy.wtf
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You don't know what you think?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark

How does a question mark indicate not knowing something????

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frongt lemmy.zip frongt@lemmy.zip
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Is that remarkable? The authors make the prevalence of parasites as the big takeaway from their study, but bizarrely they don't cite any other papers of typical parasite load in this fish species or others. I need a frame of reference.

No. This is just research to get data. They're not trying to present any conclusions.

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frongt lemmy.zip frongt@lemmy.zip
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pylova&piefed instances can tag posts& comments to find them later. For paper posts like these, it makes it easier to describe the essences of the papers.

You posted to a Lemmy instance, so I don't think it came through.

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idunnololz lemmy.world idunnololz@lemmy.world
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See, the parasite is killed by freezing, but you're still eating dead parasite bodies. That's what really gives fish it's flavour. Fish is uniformly tasteless, but ... parasites! Sorry, Big Fin, I had to expose the conspiracy.

When they farm fish, the purposefully infect the fish with parasites to give them a better flavor. /s

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TrackinDaKraken lemmy.world DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
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If I liked seafood, I'd be making excuses for why it's okay for me to eat seafood.

Glad I don't like seafood.

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