At 05:22 PM 12/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Tiffani Marie Beckman wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Ilya wrote:
>> > Whats wrong with raw pacific salmon?
>> >
>> > Ilya
>>
>> It has a high incidence of containing a very dangerous parasite.  Atlantic
>> salmon is supposed to be safe raw, however.

>Do you know what that parasite is, what it causes in humans, and if there is
>a treatment/cure for that?
From Small Animal Clinical Nutrition III (1990), page 2-12

"Ingestion of raw salmon or trout infected with Neorickettsia helminthoeca
or Neorickettsia elokominica causes an acute system disease called salmon
poisoning. Severe depression, fever, generalized enlargement of lymph
nodes, oculonasal discharge, hematemesis, and diarrhea, with 90% mortality
in untreated cases, occur 5-12 days after ingestion of the
organism...Treatment with oxytetracycline, fluids, and supportive therapy
is effective. Cooking the fish prevents the disease."


Kathy
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