Woman, 30, infected by brainworms after traveling to Hawaii

A woman who had just returned from a dream break ended up with a nightmare.

The birth of New England, 30, had just spent three weeks traveling around Thailand, Japan and Hawaii, where she swam in the ocean and often dined in salads and sushi.

When she returned home, she noticed she felt a little tired, which she initially just blamed for the aircraft neighborhood.

But then her symptoms worsened and she began to experience a burning sensation at her feet traveling at her feet.

She was hospitalized, but her test results seemed to show that she was fine – until she had to return to the emergency room because the burning sensation had emigrated to her arms and was now accompanied by a severe headache.

She was finally treated at Massachusetts General Hospital by Dr. Carlos A. Portales Castillo and became a case study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

According to Castillo, the woman’s roommate hurriedly rushed her to the hospital once after “she woke up, she thought she had to pack for vacation and was not redirect”, continuing to disorient for several hours, people reported.

Prognosis? Angiostrongyliasis – a parasitic infection caused by angiostrongylus species, most commonly angiostrongylus cantonensis, which is also known as “mouse lung worms”.

While rats are the main hosts of this infection, snails and slaps can act as intermediate hosts, and people can be infected by consuming raw or bare.

Dr. Joseph Zunt, a neurologist who specializes in infectious disease, came to this diagnosis after doctors performed a lumbar puncture, also known as a spinal fluid test, and found that it had eosinophilic meningitis – inflammation of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord.

He also linked the points after learning more about her behavior in Hawaii, where infection is a well -known issue.

Most cases in Hawaii have been on the Great Island, though it has appeared on other large islands. Although there was still no documented case in 2025, there were eight in 2024 – seven inhabitants and one visitor.

In addition to eating snails or infected ribbons raw or bare, infection can occur from eating fruits or vegetables that are contaminated, or soil crabs, sweet water prawns or frogs that have themselves eaten an infected snail. This patient is most likely sick while eating food that was contaminated with snails or slaps.

Symptoms of mouse lung worms often begin with nausea, vomiting and stomach pain, starting hours or day after eating contaminated food, according to the control of the explosion of Hava’s disease.

Headache, fever, muscle pain, fatigue, insomnia and neurological symptoms can develop, such as stiffness and neck pain, tingling or skin burning, double sight, intestines or bladder difficulties and seizures.

Children can suffer more fever, irritability, drowsiness, lethargy, gastrointestinal symptoms, muscle cracks, convulsions and extremity weakness. Moreover, people can suffer a few days to week without symptoms followed by neurological signs.

Because cases are often diagnosed or reported, it is difficult to determine exactly how often people contract this disease. However, Hawaii usually reports 10-12 cases a year, and the situation has been reported in other tropical regions, such as Florida and Texas.

There is no specific cure for this infection, so treatment usually focuses on pain management. In the case of this patient, it was treated with prednison of anti-inflammatory steroids and sent home from the hospital after six days.

In January, a disturbing X radius of a human body filled with worms went viral after the patient contracted the cistercosis-which begins with bare pig eating, but passes through the fecal matter.

Just a good memory to always wash your hands!