Three new sightings of the invasive black velvet leatherleaf slug have been reported on the Coast in April and May, bringing the total of reported sightings to around 40 since it was first found ...

It started with a bizarre burning sensation in her feet. Over the next two days, the searing pain crept up her legs. Any light touch made it worse, and over-the-counter pain medicine offered no relief ...

A tingling sensation in your feet is usually the result of poor blood circulation. But every so often, it’s an indicator of a much more nightmarish scenario: parasites setting up shop in your brain ...

A painful burning sensation in a woman's legs turned out to be the result of a parasite burrowing into her brain, her doctors have revealed. The 30-year-old, from New England, likely contracted the ...

What started out as a relatively minor annoyance, a burning sensation in the feet, soon became a frightening health emergency for a New England woman aged 30. At first assuming her exhaustion and ...

Sam Ballard, 19, ate a slug on a dare in 2010 and contracted a rare parasite that left him paralysed before he died aged 28 ...

Hawaii health officials have confirmed three new cases of rat lungworm disease, including one in a visitor who contracted the parasite after eating a slug on a dare. All of the newly identified cases ...