People may become infected when they eat unwashed produce hiding the mollusks. Home-growing food and keeping pets also raises the risk.

FILE - Adult rat lungworms coming out of a rat's pulmonary artery. The parasite has been identified in dead rat specimens in Atlanta. Georgia has a new disease to keep an eye on. Angiostrongylus ...

The Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed a case of rat lungworm disease in an individual on the island of Kauai. Rat lungworm disease, a parasitic disease also known as neuroangiostrongyliasis, ...

A woman and her grown son contracted “rat lungworm” after eating raw centipedes they bought at a market in China, researchers said. Scientists with the Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China ...

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State health officials have confirmed a case of rat lungworm disease in a resident on Hawaii’s Big Island. The resident, who lives in East Hawaii and was not identified by the State of Hawaii ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - The state has confirmed three additional cases of rat lungworm disease in visitors to the Big Island. The three adults contracted the disease separately ― and months ...

Dec. 12—Rat lungworm disease could become more widespread globally, prompting a study authored by Hawaii researchers to increase awareness of the disease within the medical community. Rat lungworm ...

BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new method to detect rat lungworm disease is being doubted the State Department of Health despite one man saying it helped him fight the disease. Mainland surgeons ...

State health officials have confirmed a case of rat lungworm disease in a Kauai resident. Neuroangiostrongyliasis, commonly known as rat lungworm disease, is caused by a parasitic roundworm and can ...

An adult is hospitalized with rat lungworm disease on Oahu, the first case of the disease reported on the island since 2010, the Health Department announced today. Health officials confirmed the case ...

Hawaii public health authorities are urging both islanders and tourists to take precautions against rat lungworm, a parasitic worm that has infected five people in the state this year. Officials with ...