I stopped eating raw salmon because of the parasites, but for those that still do; ivermectin is your friend. I take and recommend the livestock version.
When I moved to Japan the first time in August 1991 Salmon sushi/sashimi was not a thing. Mind you we're talking the salmon flesh. Salmon roe (ikura) was (and is) a standard sashimi/sushi dish. But the flesh became ubiquitous as I came back to Japan from US and then Europe in the mid/late 1990s and early 2000s. I never really thought about why that would have been the case but I did notice it as an oddity.
I stopped eating raw salmon because of the parasites, but for those that still do; ivermectin is your friend. I take and recommend the livestock version.
Then there must be parasites in other raw seafood, too.
There’s a reason the African nations had no serious covid outbreaks
Ivermectin was taken daily to offset diseases carried by mosquitoes
That explains something that I had not thought of
When I moved to Japan the first time in August 1991 Salmon sushi/sashimi was not a thing. Mind you we're talking the salmon flesh. Salmon roe (ikura) was (and is) a standard sashimi/sushi dish. But the flesh became ubiquitous as I came back to Japan from US and then Europe in the mid/late 1990s and early 2000s. I never really thought about why that would have been the case but I did notice it as an oddity.
Well-researched and a fun read. Some great lessons here to pay attention to!
The reason that wasabi paste is served with sushi is that it kills the parasites.
Fascinating!