Scientists in China now have hard evidence that eating raw centipedes is a really bad idea. But centipedes are an established remedy in traditional medicine in China. [Like the Science Times page on Facebook. | Sign up for the Science Times newsletter.] Rat lungworms — named because they were first found in 1934 in the pulmonary arteries of a Norway rat in Guangzhou, China — can be life-threatening.

Source: New York Times July 30, 2018 21:00 UTC