https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3bg9y/why-it-took-eating-a-slug-8-years-to-kill-an-australian-man-sam-ballard-rat-lungworm-disease

The strange and tragic death of a 29-year-old Australian man last week has underscored the seriousness of a rare parasitic infection called “rat lungworm disease.”

Sam Ballard of Sydney was at a party in 2010 when he ate a slug on a dare.