As well as eating all your favourite plants, slugs also bring along with them dangerous diseases including Rat Lungworm. Rat Lungworm is a dangerous parasite that commonly lives inside rats but ...

If you've noticed your garden getting overrun by slugs looking to chew through your plants, then Monty Don has provided one ...

Rat lungworm disease is caused by the body’s immunoresponse to the parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis. A. cantonensis begins its life cycle after a rat eats an infected snail or slug.

While the parasite was not detected in the ... may also become contaminated if they eat an infected slug or snail. Not all people who ingest A. cantonensis experience symptoms, according to ...

As the soil in our gardens warms up this spring, more and more slugs will head out to feast on new growth. Experts recommend ...

The parasite has been found throughout Maui so ... which are eaten by the slugs. Rats then eat the slugs and repeat the cycle. Yeung said the worms develop in different life stages in rats and ...