According to a case study, a New England woman who later felt that her legs were burning from doctors after she was only attacked by a pier on vacation abroad, felt that her legs were on fire. Ta.
The 30-year-old woman has returned from a three-week trip to Thailand, Japan and Hawaii. It has been reportedquote study It was published on February 12th by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
According to the outlet, Dr. Carlos A. Portales Castillo of Massachusetts General Hospital reported in a study that the burning sensation spread across her legs within two days, and she said, “a light touch.” It got worse.”
The woman reportedly went to the emergency room (ER), and her test results were normal except for high eosinophils (a type of white blood cell).
The symptoms worsened within days of her being discharged from the hospital and being told to check in by her primary care doctor. Burning heat spread across her arms, so she suffered from persistent headaches despite medication, the outlet reported.
Testing from another trip to another ER was also normal except for high eosinophil counts.
The next day she was planning on going on vacation despite having already returned, showing signs of mental disruption, the outlet reported. Her roommate took her to Massachusetts General Hospital. There, according to Exit, the doctor diagnosed eosinophilic meningitis caused by lungworm infection in rats.
Doctors discovered that women ate raw foods such as sushi and salads while they were in Tokyo and Hawaii. She received six days of anti-parasaisic treatment and was discharged from the hospital, the outlet reported. (Related: Report: Michigan State Police say “Sub-Parshee” leads to an attack in “Battle of Swords.”
Massachusetts General Hospital case record (@massgeneralnews): A 30-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital due to headaches and sexual abnormalities. She recently traveled to Asia and Hawaii. A diagnosis was made. Read the full case details: https://t.co/7igzeyxleh pic.twitter.com/zgidh8gmyv
– nejm (@nejm) February 13, 2025
People can infect rats with lungworm disease by eating raw or undercooked infected seafood or snails or vegetables contaminated with slime from infected snails. Infographic By nejm.
The disease is endemic in Southeast Asia and the tropical Pacific Islands, but is increasingly reported in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. CDC
The rats are the sole hosts of the worms, the CDC revealed.
Rat lung (male), angiostrongylus cantonensis. Photo dated April 1, 2005, 15:06:31. (Wikimedia Commons/Public/by Punlop Anusonpornperm – Original Work, CC 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6661771)
According to NEJM’s infographic, rats cough and swallow eggs. The ingested eggs hatch to the rat intestinal larvae. The mice excrete them, and the snails infect them, reaching the intermediate stage of the snail, after which the mice feed on the snail with their larvae. The worm then moves to the rat brain and according to infographics it is mature.
The worms die over time in most infected people and recover without treatment, the CDC said.
