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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The infected animals were spread throughout the study's time frame, all in different months, with one in 2019, three in 2021, and three in 2022, indicating sustained transmission.
The finding is concerning given the calamitous infection the rat lungworm, aka Angiostrongylus cantonensis, can cause in humans.
This can happen if the gastropods eat the rat poop or if the ravenous larvae just bore into their soft bodies.
Infected snails and slugs can also be eaten by other animals first, like frogs, prawns, shrimp, or freshwater crabs.
When a rat lungworm finds itself in a human, it does what it usually does in rats—it heads to the central nervous system and brain.
This can start with nonspecific symptoms like headache, light sensitivity, and insomnia and develop into neck stiffness and pain, tingling or burning of the skin, double vision, bowel or bladder difficulties, and seizures.
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