A dangerous parasite linked to rare but serious brain infections has now been detected on the West Coast for the first time.

BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new method to detect rat lungworm disease is being doubted the State Department of Health despite one man saying it helped him fight the disease. Mainland surgeons ...

While some may assume their pooches will be OK without certain treatments, there is a killer parasite that can easily infect untreated dogs US Brits are a nation of dog lovers, but could not ...

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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Rat lungworm disease has been around in the islands for years and not many people know much about the parasite that causes the illness. Over the past 10 years, Hawaii has ...

A woman and her grown son contracted “rat lungworm” after eating raw centipedes they bought at a market in China, researchers said. Scientists with the Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China ...

State health officials have confirmed a case of rat lungworm disease in a resident on Hawaii’s Big Island. The resident, who lives in East Hawaii and was not identified by the State of Hawaii ...

A: Because rat lungworm disease has not been reported in U.S. locations other than Hawaii and a few places in the Southeast where the weather also is warm and humid. It is present elsewhere in the ...

A recent study revealed that Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is widespread in the Hawaiian Islands and its distribution may expand, especially towards higher elevations, as the climate ...

News travels quickly on an island, even one the size of Hawaii’s Big Island. So when a twenty-four-year-old construction worker named Graham McCumber ended up in the hospital, in early 2009, it didn’t ...