Can you get tapeworms from eating sushi?
The answer is yes. Think twice before eating an undercooked fish because it is the best way to get the longest tapeworm in your stomach. The tapeworm, diphyllobothrium latum can grow up to 32 feet, the largest human-hosted parasite. Symptoms are sometimes referred to as “Jewish housewives’ disease because women would often taste the raw fish while preparing gefilte fish. (Source)
Would you stop eating sushi after reading this article? Actually, sushi bars are pretty safe, but preparing raw fish at home is another matter. Sushi chefs are specialists. Most of the time, the sushi served at the average restaurant has been frozen and freezing kills parasites. Even if freezing didn’t do such a good job of deep-sixing parasites, only a few fish would present any real problems. Tuna, for instance, live too far from land to mingle with seals and pick up many worms. Salmon and rockfish are another story. That’s why Japanese never serves salmon raw.
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