Burning in woman's legs turned out to be slug parasites migrating to her brain

Dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid is what makes Star San, the surface sanitizer used by many homebrewers, foamy. It's dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid and phosphoric acid.

Or just not bother with salad!

> Is there a radiation treatment or similar for lettuce?

Yes. Lettuce which has been sterilized with ionizing radiation has the radura logo.

Fruits and vegetables don’t have the same defense mechanisms that animals do so they can be more dangerous but I think it depends on a lot of factors like nearby animal farms and the regulatory landscape. It’s easier to enforce sanitary conditions at a slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant so the meat doesn’t get contaminated than it is to wash every bacteria colony off of all our produce. The animal’s immune system protects the inside until it gets slaughtered, which isn’t practical for most produce which has exposed surfaces.

The plants get sanitized regularly with cleaning chemicals made to kill everything and have to adjust the frequency based on the number of animals slaughtered. IIRC doing the cleaning procedure more than once a day is not unusual for a large slaughterhouse. You just can’t get that kind of cleanliness from the entire produce supply chain, especially when it’s not plastic wrapped like meat.

Undercooked meat also tends to have a much smaller blast radius like a restaurant, whereas an e-coli outbreak can contaminate produce that goes out to a large number of grocery stores and customers.

If I could opt-in to having my produce irradiated, I'd do it in a second. Washing or not, insurance is nice to have. Nuke those little pathogens to the great Petri dish in the sky.

In bad third world countries salads can be one of the iffiest thing to eat as the water can contaminated. Also the locals often don't eat salads and so haven't fixed the system, so tourists suffer. It's less of a problem than it used to be as most places now chlorinate the water.

I think the issue is that undercooked meat is (usually) obvious, but unwashed vegetables fly under the radar more easily. And too many places aren't washing it thoroughly. :/

Uncooked greens have always had the highest rate of food poisoning/parasites/whathaveyou. It's not a new thing.

Trichinosis, huh. That's a different parasitic nematode, and it grows in your muscles instead of in your brain. Preferable I suppose, depending which is more useful, hard to decide.

Most of the time the danger of lettuce is e-coli that's agricultural runoff from the animal industry, so ironically it's the meat making the veggies unsafe. Obviously this parasite is a different case but that's hardly typical.

And after all, there's no guarantee it came from the lettuce and not from the seafood, as they say in the article.

I'm not sure about "undercooked" meat, as there can be huge variance in risk based on meat type. But it's pretty much always been the case that uncooked fruits and veggies have been the cause of more food borne illness than cooked meat (not sure if that number includes raw/undercooked).

I like lettuce, even iceberg lettuce, but not at the cost of ingesting parasites.

Raw foods are most likely to get you. Even those pre washed or treated bags. You don’t know what other handling happened after the cleaning. So might be contaminated again.

I think I've seen somebody compared lettuce and raw milk to argue that the latter isn't too bad.

>> LETTUCE is deadlier then undercooked meat

Underbleached lettuce.

Looks like strings of neurons are bundled together like Cat5 cables, fed along the way by parallel blood vessels. It's not hard to imagine a thin multicellular organism undulating up these bundles, between strands or between sub-bundles.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian-Ilfeld/publicatio...

Here's a nice photo of the human nervous system https://www.instagram.com/world_of_medics/p/C3cBEQShBTp/

Chunkier looking than I'd expected.

I've wondered the same thing myself. The rabies virus takes the same route to the brain. Once it gets there, 99% of victims die.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies

> In 2017, there were 19 confirmed cases, but case totals in each of the years since have remained below 10.

There are 1.4 million people who live in Hawaii and several hundred thousand who visit every month.

So statistically, you're pretty safe. :)

Sushi meat is generally flash frozen before consumption

raw seafood is typically caught, flash-frozen, then thawed. This is remarkably effective for a wide range of contaminants.

There's just probably a few billion people doing this regularly.

Raw seafood can be pretty safe if done correctly. What do you think is stupid about it?