Table 5.
Location | Species reported | Age/sex | Possible exposure | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
USA (Texas) | M. sp. | 2 yo F | Unknown | CDC-DPDx (unpub. data) 2010 |
USA (Louisiana) | M. variabilis | 19 mo M | Cajun sausage with game viscera | (Fuentes et al., 2003) |
USA (Missouri) | M. variabilis | 5 yo M | Unknown | (Gleason and Healy, 1967) |
USA (California) | M. sp. | 22 mo F | Unknown; exotic pet contact and presence of lizards in playground noted | (Schultz et al., 1992) |
USA (Mississippi) | M. sp. | 17 mo M | Unknown; noted numerous pets and livestock at home | (Hutchison and Martin, 1980) |
USA (New Jersey) | M. sp. | 14 mo M | Unknown; geophagy noted | (Gleason et al., 1973) |
USA (Texas) | M. variabilis | 13 mo F | Unknown | (Chandler, 1942) |
Japan (Hamamatsu) | M. lineatus | 51 yo F | Raw snake liver | (Ito et al., 1962) |
Japan (Nagoya) | M. lineatus | 42 yo M | Raw snake liver and blood, eel | (Morisita et al., 1964) |
Japan (Tokyo) | M. lineatus | 30 yo M | Raw snake blood, heart, and gall bladder | (Kamegai et al., 1967) |
Japan (Tokyo) | M. lineatus | 57 yo F | Raw snake blood, heart, and gall bladder | ‘ |
Japan (Toyohashi) | M. lineatus | 36 yo M | Raw snake and eel | (Kosaka, 1942) |
Japan (Tokyo) | M. lineatus | 31 yo M | Raw snake and snapping turtle | (Hagihara et al., 1964) |
Japan (Saitama) | M. sp. | 40 yo M | Raw snake | (Miyagi et al., 1965) |
Japan (Gifu Prefecture) | M. lineatus | 35 yo M | Raw snake liver and blood | (Ohtomo et al., 1983) |
Japan | M. lineatus | 46 yo M | Raw snake heart, liver, muscle, and blood | (Kagei et al., 1974) |
Japan | M. lineatus | Unknown | Unknown | (Nagase et al., 1983) |
South Korea | M. sp. | 45 yo M | Raw snake meat | (Choi et al., 1967) |
South Korea (Jeju-do) | M. lineatus | 45 yo M | Raw chicken viscera | (Eom et al., 1992) |
China | M. lineatus | Unknown | Unknown | (Fan, 1988) |
China (Jilin Province) | M. lineatus | Unknown | Unknown | (Jin et al., 1990) |
Denmarka | M. variabilis | Unknown | Unknown | Chandler; unpub. [noted in (Gleason and Healy, 1967)] |
Rwanda/Burundi (Ruanda-Urundi) | M. sp. (nov?) | ‘child’ | Partridge meat | (Fain and Herin, 1954) |
a ‘Greenlander living in Denmark’.