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, ...

However, humans can accidentally ingest the parasite by consuming raw or undercooked snails, slugs, or contaminated produce. Once inside the body, the larvae can migrate to the central nervous ...

Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading ... interlude in its intermediate victims, slugs and snails. The cycle begins in rats, where first ...

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 ...

A recent University of Hawaii study predicts that rat lungworm disease, which is carried by snails and slugs, will spread to higher elevations as the climate warms. -- LORRIN PANG photo ...