02-04-2020, 06:49 AM
This is good news, and I'm glad you posted it, HOTPE. It is encouraging that the woman who developed symptoms before getting treatment has had such a good recovery. It probably helped that she was a Hawaii medical professional treated by someone with some familiarity with the disease and a willingness to consult experts. In other cases where it took much longer for a diagnosis to be made, the treatments have apparently been less successful. The pinworm treatment is promising, too, but doesn't it depend on awareness that a slug has been ingested? Seems like the victims often don't recall having eaten one, and only realize that was what happened in retrospect. In any case, progress is being made, and that's important.