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 ...

The Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed a case of rat lungworm disease in an individual on the island of Kauai. Rat lungworm disease, a parasitic disease also known as neuroangiostrongyliasis, ...

State health officials have confirmed a case of rat lungworm disease in a Kauai resident. Neuroangiostrongyliasis, commonly known as rat lungworm disease, is caused by a parasitic roundworm and can ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Not that long ago, Emily Faith Kubowski thought she would lose her little daughter, Elowen, to the ravages of rat lungworm disease. All signs from physicians pointed in that ...

KAUAI, Hawaii (Island News) – According to the Hawaii Department of Health, a case of rat lungworm disease has been confirmed on Kauai. The individual, who didn’t travel outside the island, ...

Rat lungworm has been detected in San Diego animals, but local officials say the risk of its spread to Santa Barbara is low.

A new study has unveiled that many rats in the Southeastern United States (US) have been infected with a rat lungworm disease. Scientifically known as Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the adult form of ...

When 4-year-old Kili first developed a cough of sorts, the owners of the mixed breed pitbull thought he was choking on something. But then things got worse — he suffered an infection of his central ...

As climate change continues, human cases of rat lungworm disease are anticipated to become more widespread globally, especially in places where the parasite that causes the disease is not yet present.

"The rats are coming, the rats are coming..." my writer friend Liz said last month as I considered titles for this column about a rat-borne parasite now in my home state of California. Said parasite ...