By the way, the last time this came around, most of the cases were in Southern Texas, and it was pretty clear that illegal immigrants from Mexico were to blame.
I love the scapegoat-of-the-day approach to immunological research.
From the website: "[K]nown in China as strongylus monospinigerum." Who knew the Chinese still speak Latin?
One of the links blames it on Martian meteorites. Just reading about all this makes me itch.