The publishing of several articles that reveal the vulnerability of farmed fish to the anisakis parasite has prompted the research group in Marine Zoology of the University of Valencia to ...

TOKYO -- The number of reported cases of food poisoning caused by Anisakis, a parasite that is taken into the human body when eating sashimi and causes severe abdominal pain, is increasing in Japan.

Pacific saury are unloaded for the first time this season at Onahama Port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2022. (Mainichi/Hideyuki Kakinuma) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common ...

Fish are infected with 283 times more parasitic worms than they were 40 years ago. Anisakis worms can infect a variety of marine fish and squid, as well as marine mammals such as whales and dolphins – ...