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October 25th, 2011
Important Reminder: Don’t Eat Raw Garden Slugs
From the pages of the New York Times, courtesy of ProMED, comes this case report: An Australian man has been hospitalized for more than a month in serious condition as a result of eating two garden slugs on a dare…The 21-year-old Sydney man apparently contracted a rat lungworm parasite from the slugs, which pick it up […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
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NEJM Journal Watch
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