After three trips to the ER, woman gets diagnosis of dreaded rat lungworm. After three trips to the ER, woman gets diagnosis ...

Symptoms usually begin as headache, nausea, vomiting and fever, but then can spread to neurological symptoms after the ...

A woman developed an array of symptoms shortly after returning from a vacation, and parasites turned out to be the culprit.

A 30-year-old New England woman’s symptoms started with a burning sensation in her feet. Over the following two days, the ...

In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her ...

After returning from a holiday of a lifetime, a New England woman could not understand what was up with her and neither could ...

Eosinophilic meningitis, caused by the rat lungworm parasite, can trigger neurological symptoms like burning sensations, ...

Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a parasitic roundworm, was found in a woman’s brain after a long trip to Thailand, Japan and Hawaii, according to a case report. Centers for Disease Control and ...

A New England woman was struck with mysterious symptoms after returning from a three-week vacation, and doctors discovered ...

According to the case report, the most common cause of eosinophilic meningitis is rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis), a parasite that lives in many tropical and subtropical regions in ...

A lumbar puncture revealed that the patient had a rare parasitic infection caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which is ...