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An Australian man died last Friday (Nov 2), eight years after he died in a 420-day coma.
In 2010, Mr Sam Ballard was drinking wine with his friends when they dared to eat at his patio.
The slug that then 19-year-old Mr Ballard ingested with a parasitic worm found in rodents that can be pbaded onto slugs, reported CNN.
Days after ingesting the slug, he started feeling sick and had a severe pain in his legacy. He told his mother Katie Ballard that he was a slug and his mother replied: "No, no one gets sick from that."
The worm caused Mr Ballard to develop rat lungworm disease.
According to CNN, humans can be infected with the disease if they eat raw or undercooked infected animals or with infected snails or slugs that have not been thoroughly washed.
Beverages can also be contaminated with worms if left uncovered for snails and slugs to enter.
The disease originates from parasitic lodges in their lungs and is later excreted in their faeces. Animals such as slugs, snails, freshwater crabs, shrimps, prawns or frogs, who eat the rat dung or get infected by the worm directly, will then carry the parasite.
The Australian Health Authority's website states the infection is extremely rare and that most people recover fully without treatment. But, occasionally, as in Mr Ballard's case, the infection can be fatal.
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