This person does not yet have a bio. View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. In parasitizing slugs, P. hermaphrodita kills its hosts. It waits in the soil and penetrates passing slugs, ...

In some areas such as Hawaii and the Southern U.S., slugs can carry the rat lungworm parasite, and if your dog eats them or their larvae, it can potentially cause a serious infection. Save your ...

The worms then move to the rat's lungs ... hosts and get infected with the L3 larvae by accidentally eating infected slugs or snails on raw or undercooked produce or by eating other undercooked ...

Sam Ballard, a former rugby player who ate a slug on a dare, became paralyzed from a parasite and has died Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL ...

The animal belongs to a genus of air-breathing marine slugs called Peronia, according to a study published March 12 in the peer-reviewed journal Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. When researcher Adam B ...

Rat lungworm disease typically infects humans after they eat raw fruits and vegetables contaminated by slugs carrying the small parasitic roundworms. -- The Maui News / CHRIS SUGIDONO photo A ...

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There is no cure for the disease. Okubo said that the parasite has been found in slugs and snails on Oahu, Maui, Kauai and Hawaii Island. Potentially, the Maui cases have been from multiple areas ...