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Fish dinner leads to very unpleasant sexual side effects
kinston ^
| March 27, 2009
Posted on 03/29/2009 3:39:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Eat fish, have painful sex? That’s what happened to six unlucky people in North Carolina who got food poisoning with a very rare side effect, the CDC reported Thursday in its weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report.
The six were guests at a dinner party in June 2007 where amberjack fish from a local fish market was served. The fish they ate had been caught in the Florida Keys. Like all predatory ocean-going fish in that region, amberjack can sometimes contain a naturally occurring toxin called ciguatera which comes from local algae and is bio-accumulated up the food chain.
Ciguatera fish poisoning causes nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps or diarrhea, along with neurological symptoms including fatigue, muscle pain, itching and tingling. It also causes some distinctive symptoms, with the best known being a reversal of hot and cold sensation, so people who have it perceive hot as cold and cold as hot. The symptoms can persist for months.
But the dinner guests in North Carolina had an even more surprising symptom, one only rarely described in the scientific literature. The two men and four women all reported painful sexual intercourse. For the men it took the form of painful ejaculation with sex. For at least one it lasted a full week. The women described a burning sensation during intercourse that lasted between five minutes and three hours afterward. Two of them reported that burning sensations with intercourse continued for a month.
TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fish; foodpoisoning; foodsupply; sex
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:40:56 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
The women described a burning sensation during intercourse that lasted between five minutes and three hours afterward. Two of them reported that burning sensations with intercourse continued for a month. Food poisoning gave them the clap?
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:41:07 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(President Obama's teleprompter has issued a stern warning to corporate executives)
To: JoeProBono
Is this a monty python skit?
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:42:10 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2banana
And now for something completely different.
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:43:03 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: JoeProBono
Painful intercourse? Never.
But the begging can be kind of humiliating...
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:43:57 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(New Obama Mantra, "Screw World Peace, I'll Buy You A Pony.")
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:44:23 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: 2banana
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:45:28 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Are they sure it wasn't a Nunfish?
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:45:49 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Nemo me impune lacessit)
To: JoeProBono
I hate it when this happens
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:46:01 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
To: JoeProBono
Should have stuck to oysters.
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:47:49 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
To: Doctor Raoul
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:55:23 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
When I mount a fish I really mount a fish.
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:55:28 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: mad_as_he$$
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:58:04 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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posted on
03/29/2009 4:00:16 PM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
(Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
To: JoeProBono
so people who have it perceive hot as cold and cold as hot. 
That's cold!
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posted on
03/29/2009 4:00:56 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action - Ian Fleming)
To: JoeProBono
Hell, I never get laid. Pass me some of that fish! A painful lay is better than nothing!
To: JoeProBono
I knew there was a reason I don’t eat anything from the water.
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posted on
03/29/2009 4:03:36 PM PDT
by
rintense
(Go Israel!)
To: JoeProBono
GROSS! ABSOLUTELY GROSS!! This picture is worse than a full frontal Photo of MICHELLE ZERO!!! MY GOSH!! How could you do this to your fellow Freepers? :-)
As penance, can You please post a great picture of Our Ann Coulter as an antedote? PLEASE!
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
03/29/2009 4:05:01 PM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
(Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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