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The snail can grow up to eight inches long, and can potentially carry the parasite rat lungworm, which may cause meningitis in humans and animals. The snail should not be handled without gloves because of the meningitis risk.

The snails can lay over 2,500 eggs in just one year, making the population difficult to contain. Florida has successfully eradicated the giant African land snail twice before, in 1975 and 2021.

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[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago

It would help if the article in some way could indicate which part of the world the snail invaded Broward county is.

I imagine it's Australia with megapests and English language, right?

[-] AlgeriaWorblebot@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

It's not a 100% indicator, but I checked the URL and it said nbcmiami; Miami's in Florida USA so that's where I figured the county would be located

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