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Originally Posted by puppet
I would rather the seals just pack their bags and left the
northeast....or at least changed their diet from fish to seaweed.
Vegan seals....that would trim the colony down.
Sort of good news...but at the same time it gives me the creeps.
especially lines like this:
then they go on to say that it is this strain of Sarcocystis ...
Problem being we are mammals too. I know little about marine
biology....but as noted above some parasite life cycles cross over
from something to marine mammals(the seals). Like I remember
some worms that cycled between fish like halibut and seals....from
what I recall the worms were not harmful to humans. Comments
like the above seem sort of alarming.
Is the intermediate host fish?
Hopefully this parasite isn't being transmitted via fish and/or doesn't
have human liver on the menu.
yikes!
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We already have a similar cycle between codfish and seals.