{"id":83262,"date":"2023-09-13T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/?p=83262"},"modified":"2023-09-13T21:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:29:02","slug":"thai-dish-so-deadly-that-one-bite-can-give-you-cancer-as-20000-killed-by-meal-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/lifestyle\/thai-dish-so-deadly-that-one-bite-can-give-you-cancer-as-20000-killed-by-meal-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai dish so deadly that one bite can give you cancer – as \u201820,000 killed by meal\u2019 | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A THAI delicacy made of raw fish has been found to cause deadly liver cancer. <\/p>\n

Koi pla – as the dish is known – is native to the Isaan province north-east Thailand, which for years has been rocked by sky-high rates of bile duct cancer. <\/p>\n


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It wasn't until recently that scientists have linked these cases to the cheap plate of raw fish ground with spices and lime enjoyed by locals.<\/p>\n

The carcinogenic dish is so deadly that it's believed to be killing up to 20,000 people in Thailand per year. <\/p>\n

It's not a particular ingredient in the dish per se that causes cancer – rather it's the parasitic flatworms, called liver flukes, that sometimes live in the raw fish used. <\/p>\n

The parasites are native to fresh water fish in the Mekong region. <\/p>\n

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As a result, Isaan is said to have the highest reported instance of aggressive cholangiocarcinoma – bile duct cancer – in the world due to heavy consumption of the raw fish meal. <\/p>\n

A doctor from the region, Narong Khuntikeo, has for years fought to warn locals on the dangers of the silent killer dish after losing both his parents to cholangiocarcinoma. <\/p>\n

"It\u2019s a very big health burden around here," the liver surgeon told Agence France-Presse. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut nobody knows about this because they die quietly, like leaves falling from a tree.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Narong put together a team of scientists, doctors and anthropologists, who drove ultrasound machines and urine testing kits around the Isaan region, testing villagers for the parasite. <\/p>\n

Up to 80 per cent of the inhabitants of some communities were found to have ingested the parasite. <\/p>\n

And at a testing site visited by AFP, a third of villagers had abnormal liver symptoms and four were suspected to have cancer.<\/p>\n

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Chalangiocarcinoma is cancer that's found anywhere in the bile ducts – these are small tubes small tubes that drain digestive fluid from the liver and gall bladder. <\/p>\n

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