Preventing meningitis caused by parasites

[Dave Smith]

Just wanted to pass along a warning about another threat of rat lungworm ingestion.

A friend was eating a mountain apple, and after she ate some of the outside she bit in closer to the center and it fell apart, revealing a full-grown semi-slug inside. As no openings were visible it wasn't clear at that point how the slug made its way into the center of the fruit, but she surmised it may have involved the stem end.

This mountain apple had not been laying around; it had just been picked from the tree.