Angiostrongyliasis cantonensis is a common helminthic disease in my country and a zoonosis. The pathogen is the larvae or early (sexually immature) adult stage of Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Angiostrongylus cantonensis invades the heart, brain, lungs and other parts of the body, especially the central nervous system, causing eosinophilic meningoencephalitis or meningitis with fever, headache, vomiting, convulsions, coma, etc. Angiostrongylus cantonensis was first discovered in Guangdong house mice and brown rats by Professor Chen Xintao in my country in 1933, and was named Pulmonema cantonensis at the time. It was later reported by Matsumoto in Taiwan, China in 1937, and was not officially named Angiostrongylus cantonensis until 1946 by Dougherty.