Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)

Re:Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases... by makeitdouble on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:11AM (#32506747)

We have a somewhat similar reaction to eating brains for instance, yet that’s probably one of the safer part or the animals we eat.

I think a lot of the reactions we built over hundreds of generations need to be revised in the world we are in today, and in light of what we know now. One of the interesting one is our reaction to body sizes, and how we still have an instinctive reaction to tall people, when it makes no sense in most of the societies we live in.

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Re:Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases... by zweifuss on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:17AM (#32506782)

Prion transmitted diseases similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease seem to be not that rare in nature. You need to cook the brains extremely well and long to be on the safe side.

Thankfully BSE (Mad Cow Disease) was not as transmissible as feared.

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Re:Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases... by mtsr on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:48AM (#32506947)

Prions are proteins and need to be denatured to be rendered harmless. Cooking is generally not enough to achieve this. See WHO guidelines for prion sterilization as mentioned in the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion#Sterilization.

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