University of Hawaii Manoa: Stressed Snails and Slugs May Spread Rat Lungworm Through Slime
December 19, 2023
December 19, 2023
MANOA, Hawaii, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release:
Can humans become infected with the rat lungworm parasite from snail slime, if an infected snail or slug leaves slime on a lettuce leaf? That is the question University of Hawai'i at Manoa researchers set out to answer in a study published in One Health.
Randi Rollins, Matthew Medeiros and Robert Cowie of UH Manoa's Pacific Biosciences Research Center, found that . . .
Can humans become infected with the rat lungworm parasite from snail slime, if an infected snail or slug leaves slime on a lettuce leaf? That is the question University of Hawai'i at Manoa researchers set out to answer in a study published in One Health.
Randi Rollins, Matthew Medeiros and Robert Cowie of UH Manoa's Pacific Biosciences Research Center, found that . . .