“…It is estimated that the total number of worldwide anisakidosis (almost all anisakiasis) cases up to December 2017 may be over 76,000, mainly from developed countries such as Japan, South Korea, Spain and Italy ( Bao et al, 2019 ). It appears that there is an increasing trend in annual hospitalizations in Spain ( Herrador et al, 2019 ), South Korea ( Kim et al, 2019 ) and Japan ( Murata et al, 2021 ; Watahiki et al, 2020 ), which was not observed in Italy ( Cavallero et al, 2018 ). A retrospective survey carried out over the period 2010 to 2014 in France showed a decrease in clinical cases ( Yera et al, 2018 ).…”