it consists of consists of minced raw fish, lemon juice, herbs, and spices, did you spot the problem?
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Commons, raw fish! The fish come from the
Mekong basin which are often infested with parasitic flatworms known as live
flukes, these parasites have long been known to cause one of the most
aggressive types of cancer known to man, cholangiocarcinoma, or bile duct
cancer, “It’s a very big health burden around here,” Narong Khuntikeo, a liver surgeon at Khon Kaen University in
Thailand, told Agence France-Presse back in 2017. “But nobody knows about this
because they die quietly, like leaves falling from a tree.” Khuntikeo, whose
parents both died of duct cancer after a lifetime of eating Koi Pla, has spent
many years traveling Thailand’s rural north-east and warning people about the
dangers of consuming the cheap but dangerous dish,
but some people will
just say things like “Oh well, there are many ways to die,” while others claim
that cooking the fish before adding it to the dish completely ruins the taste,
it is said that a single mouthful of Koi Pla is technically enough to cause
bile duct cancer. Known as the “silent killer,” the disease has one of the
lowest survival rates without surgery. Isaan, Thailand’s largest province, has
the highest reported instance of bile duct cancer in the world as a result of
the unwavering popularity of Koi Pla. Dr. Khuntikeo conducted extensive testing
among villagers in Thailand’s Isaan province and found that up to 80% of them
had ingested live flukes, and how serious is the problem? A staggering 20,000 people
a year die from the effects of cholangiocarcinoma, or bile duct cancer in
Thailand alone, the article is here.
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