A Rugby Player’s Life Changed Forever After He Was Dared To Eat A Slug
The Diagnosis
To their dismay, the doctors told Ballard and his family that he had contracted eosinophilic meningitis or cerebral angiostrongyliasis, a disease caused by the worm Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Slugs and snails are often hosts to this parasite, usually contracting it after consuming rodent feces, especially from rats.
Reproduction
Reproduction
Once inside a human organism, the larvae enter the bloodstream of the digestive tract, migrates to the central nervous system, and then lodge in the meninges.
