Sushi Lover Ends Up With His Entire Body Riddled With WORMS!

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Sushi, some say it is a delicious dish yet expensive on the menu but what happens if you are addicted to it? A Chinese man went to his doctor complaining of stomach ache and itchy skin. When the scans were run, they were shocked to see that entire body had been infected with tapeworm after eating too much sashimi - raw slices of fish.

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Doctors believe some of the uncooked Japanese delicacy of raw meat or fish must have become contaminated.

He was treated at the Guangzhou No. 8 People's Hospital in Guangdong Province, in eastern China.

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According to researchers, eating raw or under-cooked fish can cause variety of parasitic infections. Tapeworm infections occur after ingesting the larvae of diphyllobothrium, found in freshwater fish such as salmon, although marinated and smoked fish can also transmit the worm. These cases are increasing in developed countries and doctors believe that it is due to the soaring popularity of sushi.

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Dr Yin, of Guangzhou No. 8 People's Hospital, told that eating uncooked food contaminated with tapeworms' eggs could eventually cause cysticercosis, when the adult worms enters a person's blood stream.

This type of infection is life-threatening once it reaches the brain.