But one type of lungworm is infectious as soon as it’s passed in feces and can be caught by in-contact cats and other animals, including humans, causing bronchitis with a productive cough.

The worm starts infecting the animal's organs upon entering the body. Once the dog is infected, the adult lungworms start living in the heart. They also make their home in the major vessels ...

If you live in an area where rat lungworm is found, watch out not to eat any of the animals above and pay attention to produce. The parasite can live in contaminated drinking water for up to 72 hours.

After a few weeks of dry and warm weather, the recent rainfall across the country may have created the perfect environment ...

Rat lungworm is also known as Angiostrongyliasis ... slugs and certain other animals, including freshwater shrimp, land crabs and frogs. Humans can get sick when they inadvertently handle or ...

A review of decades of research revealed more than a dozen kinds of animals in addition to slugs and snails have caused rat lungworm disease in people around the world. A review of decades of ...

“It is important to know not only that snails and slugs can transmit rat lungworm parasites to humans but also which other animals — which paratenic hosts — can also do so,” Cowie sai ...

Rat lungworms can live in a variety of snail and slug species, which show no obvious signs of infection, so it’s impossible to know whether any animals you see outdoors are carriers.

Scientists have also found rat lungworm infections in other animals, such as freshwater shrimp, crabs and frogs. Human outbreaks of rat lungworm have involved a few people to hundreds, the CDC ...

Rat lungworm disease is caused by the body’s ... allowing the cycle to repeat. But sometimes other animals—and even plants—can get involved, laying the groundwork for human transmission.

NDSR’s internal medicine clinician Richard Sparrow discovered Dougie had a severe case of lungworm and immediately started him on a course of anti-parasitic treatment. Lungworm is caused by a ...

According to DNR, the snails were found to have a "low-level presence" of rat lungworm. The good news is they note that likelihood of infection is "very low." RELATED: New maps reveal possible ...