Centipedes Can Carry Rat Lungworm

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

This finding was made in China, and fortunately it’s fairly easy for most of us in Puna to avoid contracting rat lungworm from a centipede - - don’t eat them undercooked:

While centipedes aren’t common fare for most in the Western world, they are frequently served as street food or in soups in Chinese and other Asian cultures. They’re also dried and powdered for Chinese medicine. But however they’re prepared, they’re usually cooked—which kills the parasite.

While rat lungworm is native to Asia, it’s made its way around the world, and has become a big problem in places like Africa, Hawaii, the Caribbean, and most recently, the southern United States (especially Louisiana and Florida). And of course, these areas are also home to centipedes—pretty much everywhere somewhat warm is—so it’d be really great for future research to get a better understanding of how these animals interact with rat lungworms.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/scienc...2AHTSRuihA

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[TomK]

Just as I was coming up with a Hawaiian "from the land" version of cioppino, my favorite dish. Slugs, snails, beetles and centipedes cooked to perfection served in a rich and spicy tomato broth with toasted garlic bread.

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

[Lodestone]

There goes my Centipede Milk biz.

[ElysianWort]

I hear they are like shrimp when cooked up. Peel-and-eat.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

The recipes all sound delicious - - at least as tasty as in the original linked article.

I just wanted to add, concerning rat lungworm, that as we now know there is an additional source of transmission, centipedes, as well as slugs, snails, and their slime trail residue, we may need to consider there is even more we still don't know about the disease.

In the meantime, even if you normally wash your fresh produce, and even if you see no visible signs or traces of slugs or snails - - it's probably a good idea to even more thoroughly wash any and all vegetables, AND fruit before you slice into or eat them.

“Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.” - Aldous Huxley

[MarkD]

"don’t eat them undercooked"

Certain peoples eat almost anything. No problem there; the problem is when they are convinced the animal products have health benefits. Long list of endangered species losing out because of these irrational ideas.

Too bad the illness that comes with eating centipede can't be transferred to rhino horn.

https://www.rhinosinfo.com/rhino-horn-as-medicine.html

[bananahead]

in reality, anything that mingles in ratcrap can carry it... ie a kitten, a mongoose, an earthworm, a hedgehog

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