Alaska reports rat lungworm case in traveler to Hawaii, 1st case reported
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For the first time, Alaska health officials reported a case of the parasitic infection, angiostrongyliasis, aka rat lungworm disease. The case was in a traveler to Hawaii where it is endemic-18 cases in 2017 and three cases to date in 2019. The Department of Epidemiology reports in a bulletin this week: On January 28, 2019, ["]
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