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EOSINOPHILIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS

A malady caused by infection with the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, whose larvae, ingested with infected slugs or earth snails (or some unidentified transport host), migrate from intestine to the meninges of the brain where the malady is produced; it is generally mild, of short duration, and characterised by fever, eosinophilia, and white blood cells (rarely nematode larvae) in the spinal fluid.
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