Parasitic infection traced to eating centipedes

Chinese researchers have reported a dangerous food-borne parasite typically found in snails and other mollusks, which were detected in two patients in a Chinese hospital.

The researchers traced the parasites to the consumption of raw wild centipedes, according to a case report published on Monday in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Researchers from the Southern Medical University and Zhujiang Hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, said it's the first time the rat lungworm, named for its preference for the pulmonary arteries of rats, had been detected in centipedes.