The first time I ever heard of rat lungworm was in Honolulu in 1962.
It seems that some Philippino gardeners had been supplementing the protein in their diets by eating the garden slugs and snails they would come across in the course of their gardening duties. Raw. The only problem with this was that the slugs were carrying the rat lungworm parasite, which immediately took up residence in the gardeners’ brains. You see, these rat lungworms seem to prefer nervous system tissues to lung. I remember thinking the worms probably ought to be called rat brainworm.
This was only diagnosed after death, in the case of these gardeners, when the medical examiners founds that forty percent of their intra-cranial matter consisted of worms.
I’ll avoid any discussion of how these folks voted, but I think we all know.
Democrats.