Ocular manifestation is a very rare event of angiostrongyliasis, but because of eating habit, it does occur in some developing areas of the world. Evidently, less than 20 cases have been ...

Angiostrongyliasis most commonly occurs in Southeast Asian countries and has been reported from Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Japan, and Sri Lanka. On reviewing the ...

An outbreak of 81 cases of angiostrongyliasis cantonensis (AC) occurred in Beijing, China, during June through September 2006. Epidemiological characteristics, clinical signs and symptoms, laboratory ...

The CDC advised clinicians to consider the possibility of angiostrongyliasis (infection by Angiostrongylus cantonensis) in cases of eosinophilic meningitis, especially for patients who live in the ...

Angiostrongyliasis begins in a rodent’s lungs before it spreads to snails and slugs, it has been suggested that a mollusc may have walked over a vegetable, leaving behind the parasite, that the ...

She was then detected with angiostrongyliasis, a parasitic infection caused by the roundworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis, also commonly known as rat lungworm. According to doctors, most people get ...

Hawaii health officials confirmed 3 cases of rat lungworm disease, including one mainland US visitor infected with the parasite by eating a slug on a dare. That makes 10 angiostrongyliasis cases ...

“Angiostrongyliasis typically occurs in Asia and the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii. However, the CDC recently identified 12 angiostrongyliasis cases in the continental United States.” ...

Angiostrongyliasis is a parasitic infection caused by the roundworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis, commonly known as rat lungworm Credit: Getty Her first symptom was fatigue, which she put down to ...

The Department of Health on Thursday announced it has confirmed a case of angiostrongyliasis, or rat lungworm disease, in an adult on Kauai. The ninth individual had traveled to Hawaii Island in ...