Should I be concerned about injesting parasites if I eat fresh wild Alaskan salmon medium rare to rare?

Question

I eat mostly sockeye and kings both fresh and smoked.

Answer 1

what he said

Answer 2

If it was previously frozen, NO. If not, yes. Freezing is the only way (other than cooking it well) to ensure that parasites and their eggs were killed (it needs to be REALLY frozen, not just what your freezer can do). I would say stick with tuna if you like rare fish. Salmon is more prone to parasites than tuna. Smoked Salmon is good though.

As a response to Angel: You don't have any clue what you are talking about when it comes to fish. I eat raw fish almost daily, yes daily and completely raw. I never get sick and have never gotten sick. The reason why is because the FDA requires that fish to be eaten raw (sushi grade) must be frozen first to kill off any "PARASITES" (we are not talking about bacteria, Biology third grade). Bacteria will live on the surface of the fish and will be killed off as soon as you sear it (hence cooking it rare). In my case, where i don't cook the fish, the fish is actually frozen in a dry ice snow while it is still alive and then cut with a band saw into steaks... no bacteria and NO PARASITES.

Besides were not "injecting" anything here.

Answer 3

You can inject parasites. They live often in fish and other foods. Anything thats not well done cause eventually make you sick. Even if frozen. Freezing it doesnt kill germs. It stops the spread of bacteria, it doesn't kill the bacteria. So make sure that the food you eat is well done.