Other Human Disease -- United States
The Hawaii Department of Health has received notification from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that its laboratory confirmed 3 unrelated cases of angiostrongyliasis, or rat lungworm disease, in visitors to Hawaii island.
All 3 individuals are adult residents of the US mainland and were traveling in Hawaii when they were infected with the parasite causing the disease.
One of the individuals visited East Hawaii in December 2018 and became infected by purposely eating a slug
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6487791&promed&0
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