Diners who fell ill downed live crabs

[question everything]

Diners who fell ill downed live crabs

SANTA ANA – All eight diners who came down with a rare lung infection after eating raw shellfish consumed live sawagani crabs on a dare, health officials said yesteray.

Health investigators said the crabs, which are usually served fried, were eaten raw at various restaurants, including Riptide Rockin' Sushi & Teppan Grill in Mission Viejo and Chomp Rockin' Sushi & Teppan Grill in Fullerton.

Both restaurants are owned by Dan Lauriano, who said some diners apparently started a “Fear Factor”-style tradition where they would reach into a jar of live crabs and devour them raw as their friends cheered.

Six to 10 weeks after they downed the crabs, participants ended up with a parasite carried by the crab that migrates from the intestines to the lungs and causes lung fluke infection.

Associated Press

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060909/news_1n9region.html (and scroll down)

[onehandle]

1. Idiots. nt

[CatWoman]

4. LOL

First thing that came to my mind was: morans :hi:

[hippiechick]

5. Bingo!

n/t

[Ilsa]

2. Adults acting like 9 year olds. And people wonder why the

country is in the shape it's in. I guess the Fundies can't successfully blame this one on Gays or the Clenis, but I bet they'll try.

[Momgonepostal]

3. They'll say it would only happen in liberal CA nt

[Cleita]

13. See my post #11. n/t

[karlrschneider]

6. Good god, what's next, live chickens?

:puke:

[LunaSea]

7. self correcting problem

not to worry

[azurnoir]

8. Revenge of the crabs

[AZBlue]

9. They should be nominated for the Darwin Awards.

Or maybe just an Honorable Mention since it wasn't fatal.

[Webster Green]

15. Definitely Darwin Awards candidates...

Maybe they have an honorable mention for idiots who survive their idiocy?

[Truthiness Inspector]

10. Eating live creatures is demented

I am a former vegan, only now getting used to eating meat again.

I am lightyears away from eating anything LIVE.

[Cleita]

11. All lovely conservative parts of CA. You know they have to

be stupid.

[CarlVK]

12. Darwinism at work

[lonestarnot]

14. Dee Dee Dee.

[jazzjunkysue]

16. This is so X-files.

I guess my prediliction for well-cooked food is warranted.

It's not funny, but it is. Why do people have to prove their worth by doing stupid things? They could just as easily vote re publican.

[Crabby Appleton]

17. revenge of the Crabs!

[salin]

18. Gross.

Idiots.

As someone refers to above this is one of those "Hey You, Outa the gene pool!" self-inflicted by the diner moments.

[charlie]

19. Lovely disease

The eggs are excreted unembryonated in the sputum, or alternately they are swallowed and passed with stool (1). In the external environment, the eggs become embryonated (2), and miracidia hatch and seek the first intermediate host, a snail, and penetrate its soft tissues (3). Miracidia go through several developmental stages inside the snail (4): sporocysts (4a), rediae (4b), with the latter giving rise to many cercariae (4c), which emerge from the snail. The cercariae invade the second intermediate host, a crustacean such as a crab or crayfish, where they encyst and become metacercariae. This is the infective stage for the mammalian host (5). Human infection with P. westermani occurs by eating inadequately cooked or pickled crab or crayfish that harbor metacercariae of the parasite (6). The metacercariae excyst in the duodenum (7), penetrate through the intestinal wall into the peritoneal cavity, then through the abdominal wall and diaphragm into the lungs, where they become encapsulated and develop into adults (8) (7.5 to 12 mm by 4 to 6 mm). The worms can also reach other organs and tissues, such as the brain and striated muscles, respectively. However, when this takes place completion of the life cycles is not achieved, because the eggs laid cannot exit these sites. Time from infection to oviposition is 65 to 90 days.

Infections may persist for 20 years in humans. Animals such as pigs, dogs, and a variety of feline species can also harbor P. westermani.

[question everything]

25. They should post this chart next to the tanks

Not that it will prevent drunk idiots from doing this, after all.

I wonder whether any ambulance chaser is preparing a law suit.

[Red Right and BLUE]

20. *shakes head in silence*

[Jacobin]

21. In the '50's it was cool to swallow live goldfish

There are always a few idiots in each generation. Darwin will take care of that

[lonestarnot]

22. I certainly hope so. People that think they should sustain the eating

habits of Polar Bears (which are starving due to global warming BTW) should not procreate.

[Beelzebud]

23. LOL. Natural Selection in action.

[Greyhound]

24. "Stupid is as stupid does" - Forrest's mom n/t