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Snail meat likely behind some outbreaks in Africa

By News Desk on July 18, 2022

Scientists have suggested that outbreaks from edible snail consumption may be going undetected in Cameroon.

Researchers detected Campylobacter, Yersinia, Listeria, Salmonella, and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in snails in Cameroon. African land snails are a…

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Scientists study role of snails in parasites that pose public health threat

By News Desk on March 7, 2021

Researchers have increased knowledge of the lifecycle of some parasites by studying snails in Thailand. These parasites can cause severe infections in humans who consume raw or improperly cooked fish that have fed on infected…
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Parasites continue to cause rat lungworm infections in Hawaii

By News Desk on May 25, 2019

A parasitic worm that causes serious infections, especially via foods and beverages, has sickened at least three mainland visitors to Hawaii’s Big Island, according to state officials.

Hawaii’s health department director has released information provided…
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Rat lungworm cases linked to eating centipedes; host snails increasing in US

By Joe Whitworth on August 8, 2018

A foodborne parasite detected in two patients in a Chinese hospital has been traced to consumption of raw wild centipedes, according to a case report by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Researchers…
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Hawaii reports first confirmed rat lungworm case of 2018

By News Desk on February 26, 2018

The Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed the first case of rat lungworm disease in the state this year in an adult resident of West Hawaii on Hawaii Island.

The individual became seriously ill earlier…
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‘Free’ trip leaves man in expensive, lifelong, parasitic nightmare

By Catharine Huddle on January 29, 2018

Ron and Darlene Fields pose during their 2016 trip to Hawaii — before Ron got sick. Photo courtesy of Darlene Fields

Ron and Darlene Fields had been married for 26…
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Rat lungworm cases spike on two Islands, Maui and Big Island

By News Desk on April 13, 2017

2016-05-13-ratlungworm_406x250Hawaii is experiencing an uptick in rat lungworm disease.  Six confirmed cases on Maui and another three confirmed cases on  the Big Island were reported over the last three months with no deaths.   That’s about…
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Hawaii Concerned About Rat Lungworm

By Dan Flynn on November 16, 2011

In paradise, they still have to worry about rat lungworm.  

Hawaii’s top experts on the debilitating infection gathered last week at the University of Hawaii-Hilo’s College of Pharmacy out of growing concern about rat…

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