How to Use lungworm in a Sentence

lungworm

noun

• Entering Hawaii in the 1930s, the African land snail may have been Hawaii’s first rat lungworm vector.
  — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2022
• Most troubling, the snails can carry rat lungworm, which is known to cause meningitis.
  — al, 8 July 2022
• The third is the dangerous parasite that such snails may be carrying: the rat lungworm.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 2 July 2022
• The culprit, doctors said, was a parasite in the slug called a rat lungworm, which can burrow into the human brain.
  — National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2018
• In fact, that's what usually happens in human cases of rat lungworm.
  — Eleanor Hildebrandt, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
• Sam became a quadriplegic and has to be tube-fed after contracting rat lungworm from the backyard slug in 2010.
  — Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
• Sam, who became a quadriplegic and has to be tube fed after contracting rat lungworm from the backyard slug, has had a support group of friends since the 2010 tragedy occurred.
  — Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
• Researchers from the University of Sydney had to get creative to see how a toad lungworm alters its host's behavior.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2018
• Giant African snails can carry a parasite called rat lungworm that leads to meningitis in humans.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 19 Mar. 2023
• Giant African land snails can carry a parasite called rat lungworm, known to cause meningitis in humans and livestock.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
• Although most renowned for his book Atlas of Parasitology, in the early years of his career, Ash studied rat lungworm.
  — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2022
• There's no reason to initially suspect centipedes would host rat lungworm.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2018
• They're known to transmit rat lungworm parasites, which can invade the human central nervous system and cause a type of meningitis.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 July 2022
• Janice Okubu, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health, noted this year that Hawaii typically reports only one to nine cases of rat lungworm each year.
  — Victoria Larned, CNN, 29 Sep. 2017
• As for the aforementioned rat lungworm, Packo says it is usually transmitted through fresh produce and undercooked meats.
  — Emma Sarran Webster, Allure, 14 Feb. 2018
• The parasitic worm in these cases is the rat lungworm, aka Angiostrongylus cantonensis.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 30 May 2019
• As adults, the lungworm larvae live in rat lungs, said Terry Farrell, a biology professor at Stetson.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
• Along with negatively affecting agriculture and ecosystems, the West Africa natives are known to carry a parasite called the rat lungworm that can cause rare forms of meningitis in humans.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 21 July 2021
• All these years later, he was diagnosed with an infection of rat lungworm, a parasite the slug had evidently been carrying.
  — Eleanor Hildebrandt, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
• Giant apple snails, which originally came to the U.S. through the aquarium trade, wreak havoc on aquatic crops like rice, per National Geographic, and spread a parasite called rat lungworm.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
• Rat lungworm itself is an infectious blight which has recently spread well beyond Southeast Asia and various Pacific islands.
  — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2022
• Otherwise known as the nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm is typically found in rodents.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 2 July 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024