A parasite that normally lives in the lungs of rats can infect the human brain if accidentally ingested in contaminated food — and now, the worm has claimed new territory in Georgia. But don't freak ...

It's not just a rat disease. It's not just a worm disease. It's rat lungworm disease, and according to the Hawaii Department of Health, this is the disease that three separate people got when they ...

Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading a woman’s brain and causing rare and rapidly progressing lesions. The previously healthy 60-year-old woman ...

A tingling sensation in your feet is usually the result of poor blood circulation. But every so often, it’s an indicator of a much more nightmarish scenario: parasites setting up shop in your brain ...

The dreaded rat lungworm—a parasite with a penchant for rats and slugs that occasionally finds itself rambling and writhing in human brains—has firmly established itself in the Southeast US and will ...

Three more cases of rat lungworm disease have been confirmed by the Hawaii Department of Health, a disease that could damage a victim's brain or spinal cord in some cases. One case occurred last year ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Big Island teen with non-verbal autism has contracted rat lungworm disease and doctors say he could have gotten the brain invading parasite from contaminated water ...