Global Update: Australian Man’s Illness Prompts Warning on Eating Slugs

Monday, October 17, 2011 - 16:20 in Health & Medicine

The ingestion of a parasite called Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which can cause fatal brain swelling, was the result of a dare.

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