If you want to eat slugs, you must cook them first. A young man in Australia was recently taken to hospital with severe meningitis. At first the cause was a mystery. But “repeated questioning revealed that the patient had ingested, five weeks earlier, for a dare, two slugs“, reports John Walker of Sydney University in The Medical Journal of Australia.
Slugs, it turns out, harbour the larval stage of a rat parasite, Angiostrongylus cantonensis. This can crawl out of the gut up to your brain, causing inflammation. The risks of eating raw slugs are well known in Asia but…
