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Giant African snails may look harmless, but they carry a dangerous disease that poses a serious risk to humans and wildlife. Learn how these invasive creatures are spreading illness and what can ...

The giant African snails can carry the parasite rat lungworm, which is known to cause meningitis in humans, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Stephanie ...

No, this foreign invader is a snail. But what a snail it is. The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the ...

Customs officials found six giant “highly invasive” snails with destructive potential in a traveler’s suitcase at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The giant African snails, which were alive ...

Many Partula snail species went extinct in French Polynesia after the rosy wolf snail was introduced to the islands to ...