This was unfortunately the recent situation for a 30-year-old woman, whose bout of angiostrongyliasis (also known as rat lungworm disease) was recently highlighted in a recent New England Journal ...

Thereafter, she was admitted to the hospital for further investigations. She was then detected with angiostrongyliasis, a parasitic infection caused by the roundworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis ...

Furthermore, it has been reported that the patient may have picked up the life-threatening parasitic infection, known as angiostrongyliasis or ‘rat lungworm’, from eating unwashed vegetables.