What is Rat Lungworm Disease and how humans can get it

Rat Lungworm Disease, also known as angiostrongylus, is transferred to humans when people eat raw or undercooked snails and slugs that have worms in them. This can happen accidentally too, when the slugs and snails are on fruits and vegetables that haven’t been thoroughly washed.

• A young man ate a garden slug on a dare, became paralyzed and died 8 years later