COVID-19 — or something even creepier?Doctors in Japan say they successfully removed a long, thin, “moving black worm” from a woman’s tonsil, in a spine-tingling case linked to a piece of bad sashimi.The woman, 25, complained of a sore throat a few days after she ate some assorted sashimi, according to a case study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.Doctors checked her out and found that the cause was not a cold but a case of “tingling throat syndrome” — a soft way of saying she had a parasite in her left tonsil.
Are parasitic worms lurking in your seafood? Here’s what Canadian experts say Doctors used tweezers to extract the long, black worm from the woman’s throat at St.