Eosinophilic meningitis, caused by the rat lungworm parasite, can trigger neurological symptoms like burning sensations, ...

Symptoms usually begin as headache, nausea, vomiting and fever, but then can spread to neurological symptoms after the parasite leaves the bloodstream, enters muscle, migrates to peripheral nerves and ...

A woman returned from a three-week vacation and started noticing a strange burning sensation in her legs. She visited multiple doctors until being diagnosed with "rat lungworm," a parasite spread by ...

But over the next three days, the burning feeling spread up to her chest and arms and she developed a headache that wouldn’t wane even with over-the-counter pain medication, according to the report.