Snails are a known carrier of rat lungworm disease Photo: Getty Health officials in Hawaii have been warning residents not to touch snails or slugs with their bare hands because of an increase in cases of people coming into contact with a rare parasitic infection known as a rat lungworm. Experts are blaming its sudden […]
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Concern growing for brain-invading worms, spread by slugs and rats
Adult female worm of Angiostrongylus cantonensis recovered from rat lungs with characteristic barber-pole appearance (anterior end of worm is to the top). Scale bar = 1 mm. (credit: Lindo et al.) There have been six cases of a rare parasitic infection called “rat lungworm” in Maui in the last three months, health officials reported this […]
