# Getting Anisakis from raw fish

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [November 2, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-anisakis-from-raw-fish/559224 "2010-11-02T16:33:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-anisakis-from-raw-fish/559224/1 "2010-11-02T16:33:49Z")

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Cecil’s 1985 column seems to over-exaggerate the danger of Anisakis a bit.

From the FDA’s website at [http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodborneIllness/FoodborneIllnessFoodbornePathogensNaturalToxins/BadBugBook/ucm070768.htm](http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodborneIllness/FoodborneIllnessFoodbornePathogensNaturalToxins/BadBugBook/ucm070768.htm)

There are fewer than 10 cases diagnosed a year in North America (although the article acknowledges there might be more undiagnosed cases), and generally they are “eliminated spontaneously from the digestive tract lumen within 3 weeks of infection.”

ETA: Link to column: [Can you get worms from eating sushi? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/399/can-you-get-worms-from-eating-sushi)