Diagnostic dilemma: A woman got a rare parasitic lung infection after eating raw frogs

Ten or so east asian bull frogs shown sitting in water.

The patient: A 32-year-old woman in Shanghai

The symptoms: The woman went to the hospital with a persistent cough accompanied by occasional bloody phlegm, which she would cough up two to three times per day. She said the coughing began four months prior to her hospital visit. And about a month before the coughing started, she had a fever that lasted several weeks and reached up to 100.8 degrees Fahrenheit (38.3 degrees Celsius).