Of these, at least 13 species of prawns/shrimp, crabs, flatworms, fish, frogs, toads, lizards, and centipedes have been associated with causing rat lungworm disease in humans. This work was the ...

A slug might even contaminate a garden hose, which a person then drinks from. If rat lungworm enters the human body, it will also attempt to set up housing in the lungs and brain, where the ...

When a human gets this parasite, it can cause a disease known as angiostrongyliasis, or neural angiostrongyliasis (NAS). Some people call this rat lungworm disease. Being infected with rat ...

The 'rat lungworm' typically takes root in humans from undercooked vessels like crayfish JAMA Neurology;Getty A woman ate crayfish (also known as crawfish) with worms burrowed into it and ...

Rat lungworm is also known as Angiostrongyliasis. The disease caused by a parasitic nematode commonly found in rodents. Scientists say the parasite gets to humans through intermediate hosts ...

ACCIDENTAL HOST—The Story of Rat Lungworm Disease reveals the frightening spread of a foodborne parasite that invades human brains and now thrives in tropical areas of five continents ...

Test results confirmed a low-level presence of rat lungworm in both species. The parasite can be transmitted to humans if the ...

Tennessee is among eight states where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have detected cases of rat lungworm infection ... outside the United States. Humans typically are infected ...

but human brains are dead ends for the worms, which eventually die there without fully maturing. Some of the luckiest rat lungworm victims don't need treatment and make full recoveries after the ...

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 ...