A Japanese pen with live parasitic worms inside it is going viral on social media, leaving the internet with all sorts of questions. The pen was allegedly designed a few years back, but its video ...

A Japanese fishmonger’s shop has made a collectible pen with an actual living parasite inside, giving off major Resident Evil ...

If you’ve checked social media today, you may have stumbled across a see-through ballpoint pen with real parasites swimming around inside it (and maybe dismissed it as AI slop). Prompting grossed-out ...

A new method enables anisakids to be detected in any fish product, from a whole fish, fresh or frozen, to tinned fish and surimi. Developed by Spanish scientists, the system is based on molecular ...

Spanish authorities have issued a warning about a parasite in anchovies after three people fell ill. The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) reported a brand of anchovies in vinegar ...

Researchers have estimated that Japan had around 20,000 anisakiasis cases each year in 2018 and 2019. These figures are much higher than official data. Anisakiasis is a parasitic disease caused by ...

There’s a kind of family panic that shows up right before Christmas Eve or New Year’s: the menu is almost closed… and then somebody drops a link in the family WhatsApp group. “Have you seen the thing ...

A novelty pen from Japan is getting attention for an unusual reason — it contains a preserved Anisakis parasite inside its transparent barrel. Sold as a handcrafted souvenir in Kochi Prefecture for ...

Diners may be more likely to utter those words today than in decades past, as the abundance of parasitic Anisakis worms infecting fishes around the globe is now 283 times what it was in the 1970s, ...

MITO -- A woman in her 40s is recovering from food poisoning after eating at a sushi restaurant in a nearby port city, the Ibaraki Prefectural Government announced on June 18. According to the ...