I've seen people here post regularly about parasitic infestations. How likely is it that a regular person has one?I eat seafood, I eat wild game every now and then, but I do cook both to what is supposedly safe temperatures. I do own cats thoughever and heard that comes with its own set of issues.What's the likelihood I have a parasitic infestation? Should people be doing regular dewormings like we do with animals? I asked my primary care doctor and he simply laughed and said I'm overreacting when I brought up the topic.
All wild animals have parasites, including fish, but if you cook them properly this shouldn't be a problemFarm animals shouldn't have any parasites, at least in developed world, because government regulation prevents this.
>>525902328>I asked my primary care doctor and he simply laughed and said I'm overreacting when I brought up the topic.Yeah, they do that. I have a nasty parasitic infection from an insect bite I got while living in shithole Asia. I haven't found a single physician who will even investigate it. On one extreme are the ones who simply ignore it, on the other are the ones who actively try to humiliate me for daring to think I know what I'm talking about. They're so smart that they know everything and refuse to consider even the chance that there is something they don't know about.In terms of everyday stuff like pinworms or tapeworms, you're at low risk in the U.S., but restaurant workers (illegal aliens from shithole countries in Latin America or, nowadays, India and the surrounding area) sometimes contaminate food and pass them on to customers. There was a famous outbreak in New York which turned out to be because Jews were hiring illegal aliens as household servants, and the illegals were oopsie contaminating the Jews' food with feces and giving them the sorts of tapeworms normally found in pigs. For this sort of thing, the medications are pretty well known but are semi-specific to the type of tapeworm. Ivermectin works on nematode type parasites.
