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Sushi lovers, beware: stomach-burrowing parasites may bite if you try to make the Japanese delicacy at home.

An Alberta man had the misfortune of hosting the first-recorded Canadian case of a nasty parasitic worm from raw fish he bought at a grocery store.

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Doctors at Calgary’s South Health Campus were stumped when a 50-year-old man showed up in the emergency room in August 2014 in extreme pain with perpetual vomiting, doctors report in a paper published last month.

“This is such a rare, unusual etiology, I don’t think most people would put it too high on their list,” said Dr. Stephen Vaughan, an infectious diseases consultant with a special interest in tropical medicine.

An X-ray and CT scan showed irregularities in the man’s stomach just hours after made himself sushi at home with raw wild salmon he bought at a Calgary Superstore.

When a gastrointestinal specialist sent a little camera down his throat into his stomach, what he found was the stuff of squeamish people’s nightmares.