ANGIOSTRONGYLUS MENINGITIS - USA (02): (HAWAII)
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Date: Sun 22 Mar 2009
Source: KPUA Hawaii News, Associated Press (AP) report [edited]
http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=17462
Rat lungworm patients recovering
[The 38-year-old woman] has come out of the coma caused by rat
lungworm disease enough to respond to friends and her parents. She
has been hospitalized since 8 Dec 2008. [The 24-year-old man] is now
conscious and able to track people with his eyes. He was put in
intensive care in January [2009].
Both remain at Hilo Medical Center, where they are breathing with the
assistance of a machine. The disease is spread through vegetables
containing larvae of a slug that carries the rat lungworm. A 3rd
person who contracted rat lungworm disease has recovered enough to
walk and live at home.
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Communicated by:
ProMED-mail Rapporteur Brent Barrett
[ProMED-mail thanks Brent Barrett for the follow up report on the 3
patients. The CDC fact sheet on angiostrongyliasis can be found at
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/angiostrongyliasis.htm
The HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map of Hawaii is available at
http://healthmap.org/r/007B
- Mod.EP]
[see also:
Angiostrongylus meningitis - USA: (HI) 20090106.0046
2008
Never heard of that one before.
Where is it typically found?