Eating Raw Crawfish?

[Terry Beeson]

Hot off the press form the Arkansas Game & Fish newsletter...

Missouri issues warning on eating raw crawfish

Missouri issues warning on eating raw crawfish

LITTLE ROCK - At least three individuals have contracted a lung parasite after eating raw crawfish from rivers in southern Missouri. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services along with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has issued a warning to not eat raw crawfish.

Crayfish, crawfish or crawdads contain parasites that can cause severe lungworm disease in people and animals. Cooking crawfish kills the parasite and makes the invertebrate edible for humans.

The Missouri individuals contracted the parasites by eating raw crawfish from a tributary of the Merrimac River and another from the Current River. There are no reports of anyone contracting the parasites in Arkansas. These particular parasites have a life cycle that involves snails, crayfish and mammals.

Before eating crawfish, people should make sure they are adequately cooked. Symptoms associated with lung disease include fever, difficult or labored breathing, chronic cough, coughing up blood and abdominal pain. However, many infections can go unnoticed, or result in only mild symptoms. The disease may also involve other areas of the body such as the spleen, abdominal cavity, skin, brain and central nervous system. If the disease is contracted, symptoms usually last about five years. These symptoms tend to subside after five years, but they have been known to persist for as long as 20 years.

Is this a common practice?

[patfish]

That is messed up! I can't find any MO news on it all.

What in the world would possess someone to eat a crawdaddy raw?

[KCRIVERRAT]

Where did you see the Missouri warning on this Terry? I've ate them cooked, wouldn't think of eating them raw unless I was lost in a bayou or something.

[KCRIVERRAT]

Should have read the post better... Arkansas Game and Fish reported this? Where's they're source?

[zander]

everybody wants to be like Bear Grylls I am guessing, that or double dog dares did it

[fishinwrench]

I bet at one point, after blood tests, x-rays, urinalysis, and swine flu tests, a conversation such as this took place........

Doc: "So I understand you boys spend your weekends on the river quite a bit..."

Patient: uh huh

Doc: "ever fall asleep in the water with your face in the gravel".

Patient: um, not that I remember, but my buddy Roy passed out too close to the fire one time and burnt his foot dang near off.

Doc: "I see,..... Do you guys do much fishing" ?

Patient: oh yeah.

Doc: "by any chance have you two Nimrods been putting your bait in your mouth" ?

Patient: well.... we sucked on some crawdad tails last week, got hungry as hell and it was too wet to get a fire goin'.... WHY ?

Doc: "Because it appears that parasitic worms are eating you from the inside out".

Patient: We ain't ate no worms....just crawdads.

Doc: "No you see, crustaceans such as crawfish are a host for microscopic parasites,,,, if you eat them raw you then become the host". "How old are you again" ?

Patient: even if you chase'em with whiskey ?

Doc: "chasing them with whiskey just makes them drunk...and horney, then they reproduce faster....inside you".

Patient: you mean I gotta worm orgy goin' on inside me ?

Doc: "yeah, pretty much'.

Patient: aw dung.... I'm gonna die.

Doc: No-no, I think it will be ok.... do we have your health insurance information on record ?

Patient: I ain't got no health insurance.

Doc: oh dung.

Patient: what ?

Doc: you're gonna die.

[eric1978]

LMAO...wrench

[ozark trout fisher]

I bet at one point, after blood tests, x-rays, urinalysis, and swine flu tests, a conversation such as this took place........

Doc: "So I understand you boys spend your weekends on the river quite a bit..."

Patient: uh huh

Doc: "ever fall asleep in the water with your face in the gravel".

Patient: um, not that I remember, but my buddy Roy passed out too close to the fire one time and burnt his foot dang near off.

Doc: "I see,..... Do you guys do much fishing" ?

Patient: oh yeah.

Doc: "by any chance have you two Nimrods been putting your bait in your mouth" ?

Patient: well.... we sucked on some crawdad tails last week, got hungry as hell and it was too wet to get a fire goin'.... WHY ?

Doc: "Because it appears that parasitic worms are eating you from the inside out".

Patient: We ain't ate no worms....just crawdads.

Doc: "No you see, crustaceans such as crawfish are a host for microscopic parasites,,,, if you eat them raw you then become the host". "How old are you again" ?

Patient: even if you chase'em with whiskey ?

Doc: "chasing them with whiskey just makes them drunk...and horney, then they reproduce faster....inside you".

Patient: you mean I gotta worm orgy goin' on inside me ?

Doc: "yeah, pretty much'.

Patient: aw dung.... I'm gonna die.

Doc: No-no, I think it will be ok.... do we have your health insurance information on record ?

Patient: I ain't got no health insurance.

Doc: oh dung.

Patient: what ?

Doc: you're gonna die.

Wow.... Still laughing............

[flyfishmaster]

Oh my THat helped me to perform a #2 in the toilet.

Later,

FFM

[Wayne SW/MO]

You can't fix stupid.