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New Zealand’s ‘Bug of the Year’ Is a Slime-Shooting Predator Older than Dinosaurs— One That Turns Its Victims Into Soup
New Zealand’s Bug of the Year competition has crowned an ancient, bizarre, and surprisingly savage predator as its 2024 ...
She thought she had jet lag. Doctors found parasitic worms in her brain.
Severe burning sensations and confusion were later attributed to rat lungworm, which is often transmitted through snails and slugs, a case study revealed.
Woman’s mystery illness traced to brain-infesting parasitic worm
Doctors were baffled. It was the start of a medical mystery that’s the subject of a New England Journal of Medicine case ...
Woman has burning sensation in legs after vacation — then doctors find brain parasites
Symptoms usually begin as headache, nausea, vomiting and fever, but then can spread to neurological symptoms after the ...
Doctors find worms squirming through teen’s neck: A cautionary tale
In most cases, the rash from a wandering worm is in a foot, ankle, thigh, or rear—basically from a person walking or sitting ...
New Zealand’s bug of the year is an ancient worm that spits poison goo
Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor ...