Not every fish should be sushi is the lesson learned at Japan’s Meguro Parasitological Museum, as you can see if you click on the picture above, which depicts a massive, massive tapeworm, removed from a man who acquired it by eating raw trout. Our friend Leah recently went to Japan and took a tour of this free museum, and sent this scan of a page from a pamphlet. She also sent a link to a virtual tour of the website, here. Warning, whoever designed the site is, well, not much of a designer. But although you have to click on the tiny sub-postage stamp-sized images to get the tour, the hilarious “Engrish” captions make it all worthwhile (as do the gross parasites, obviously).

My favourite: “There are so many lovers to take a pecture in front of the worm for their memory.”

Sadly, the fecal-phallic parasites from Shivers don’t seem to be covered.

(Thanks, Leah!)