I might catch some brain-wasting disease by eating the wrong part of a cow or any other mammal, and I could get avian flu from a bird and salmonellosis from a reptile. But what about from contact with or consumption of fish? Of course, I could get heavy metal poisoning, but what about an actual disease? Do fishmongers or fishermen come down with any such afflictions?
All the afflictions mentioned in the link above seem to relate to handling fish,
so I’ll mention ciguatera which is a kind of food poisoning you can get when eating fish in tropical regions.
A few years back Cecil wrote a column warning of the dangers of the candirú fish. Close contact often results in a painful medical condition whose only treatment (until recently, at least) was penile amputation.
Worms, especially with the growing popularity of raw fish dishes throughout the world.