A post on Douban in the past two days has caught fire: a netizen was on a honeymoon trip at the end of February this year and accidentally ate Fushou snail, causing a parasite to invade the brain.
Pregnant, she did six lumbar punctures, pierced nearly 300 hanging bottles, ate more than a dozen boxes of insect repellents, and was forced to undergo drug abortion because of the drug and hormone effects of the body deformation!
Many netizens look confused and feel very frightened: I have also eaten Fushou snail, will there be danger?
In fact, eating Fushou snail to infect parasites is not a strange thing.
Guijie Street is the vane of Beijing's food popularity, around 2000, there are three kinds of things on fire, spicy crab, crayfish, Fushou snail, and soon the whole capital began to eat.
At the end of 2006, there was a Guangzhou tube nematode infection in Beijing, and dozens of people were recruited, some of whom were brain damaged.
The culprit was FushouLuo, a restaurant called Shuguo Yanyi.
Due to the onset of the disease 1-2 months after eating Fushou snail, many consumer invoices, receipts and other vouchers were lost, and finally did not get due compensation.
In fact, it is not unusual for freshwater aquatic products to carry parasites, and it is also normal for Fushou snails to carry parasites.
In the natural state, frogs, snails, fish, and shrimp are common intermediate hosts for parasites, such as the most familiar relationship between snails and schistosomiasis.
However, the key to causing parasitic diseases is not Fushou snail, but the processing method, mainly raw or semi-raw food.
For example, the most common parasitic disease in Guangdong and Guangxi is hepatic fluke disease, which is caused by eating freshwater fish raw, which is particularly common in Shunde.
In fact, the life force of parasites is very limited, afraid of cold, more afraid of heat, as long as it is fully heated, there is no undead parasite, including eggs.
The "five points of food safety" recommended by the World Health Organization are very clear, one of which is to cook thoroughly, which means that the core temperature of the food reaches 70 degrees.
At this temperature, proteins will degenerate and coagulate, parasites will naturally die, dead parasites..... Isn't it just protein!
Of course, the special structure of Fushou snail may make it more dangerous.
On the one hand, the shell is hard and thick, and the screw has a hard lid, so the soup is difficult to enter the snail meat.
The spiral-shaped structure inside the snail resembles a labyrinth, which is not conducive to the conduction of heat.
The size of the Fushou snail was also relatively large, and it was not easy to burn through.
Therefore, it is not that the snail cannot be eaten, but that it should be burned for a while.
Another factor may be related to the meat quality of the Fushou snail, the meat quality of this snail is older, if the cooking time is too long, it may be difficult to chew, which also causes restaurants to be more inclined to burn less for a while.
In addition, it is also very important to separate raw and cooked, such as sharing knives, boards, and containers, which may allow parasites to contaminate cold dishes or cooked foods.
Although it is unfair to rely on the parasitic disease on the Fushou snail, it is really not a good thing.
Around the 1980s, fushou snails were introduced from South America, initially as aquaculture and as feed for other aquatic products.
Unexpectedly, its fertility was too strong and it lacked natural enemies, and as a result, it flooded and ate the rhizomes of rice in the rice field, resulting in a decrease in production.
Its ecological damage is also great, because some native snails can not compete with it, and it has become an out-and-out invasive species.
Of course, there are also some idle and unethical benevolent people who regard it as a release animal and spread it to the north and south of the motherland, and even the West Lake in Hangzhou and the Erhai Sea in Dali have been occupied by it.
(At present, the domestic release activities are simply impossible to see, some put invasive species, some put the environment can not survive at all, every time I see such a report, I want to scold the mother)
The dense fear of the powder in the picture below is the egg of the Fushou snail, and you must walk away silently when you see it later, because no matter how much effort you make to eliminate it, it is futile...
Let's just say that even Chinese foodies can't stop it, and you're dead.