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 ...

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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 ...

More information: Phoebe Rivory et al, Rainfall- and Temperature-Driven Emergence of Neural Angiostrongyliasis in Eastern Australia, 2020–2024, The Journal of Infectious Diseases (2025).

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 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 ...

Angiostrongyliasis, commonly known as rat lungworm disease, is caused by a parasitic roundworm and can have debilitating effects on an infected person’s brain and spinal cord. In Hawai‘i, most ...