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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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To: martin_fierro; wildbill
If you knew sushi like we know sushi...
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posted on
03/29/2009 4:53:22 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/29/2009 5:01:49 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
This blind guy’s walking by the fish market.....
To: JoeProBono
[singing] east meets west...
[singing] the flavor can’t be beat, rice-a-roni...
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posted on
03/29/2009 5:56:58 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/29/2009 6:01:00 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
03/29/2009 6:04:27 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: JoeProBono
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posted on
03/29/2009 6:06:12 PM PDT
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Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: SunkenCiv
"SF sure has changed."
Ya think?
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posted on
03/29/2009 6:08:28 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
You come up with the most interesting and unusual pictures...
What a creative mind!
To: BigSkyVic
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posted on
03/29/2009 9:25:38 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Intolerant in NJ
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posted on
03/29/2009 9:28:42 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono; Slings and Arrows
I can’t believe they felt like having sex in the first place with all of those symptoms
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03/29/2009 9:35:35 PM PDT
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Freedom2specul8
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
There you go, ruining a perfectly good Interwebs story with logic!
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posted on
03/29/2009 9:55:09 PM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
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To: Pyro7480
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posted on
03/29/2009 9:57:09 PM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
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To: Slings and Arrows
I couldn’t help myself. LoL
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03/29/2009 10:42:13 PM PDT
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Freedom2specul8
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To: JoeProBono
You owe me a new keyboard and the cost of eye repair!!!!
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posted on
03/30/2009 5:07:10 AM PDT
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mad_as_he$$
(Nemo me impune lacessit)
To: Slings and Arrows
I should have known it was Monty Python. ;-)
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posted on
03/30/2009 7:25:25 AM PDT
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Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: mad_as_he$$
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posted on
03/30/2009 7:46:39 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
To: CaptRon
No, rock fish are also called striped bass. YUM!
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posted on
03/30/2009 7:54:01 AM PDT
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Travis T. OJustice
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