Fig. 1

Pedro Morera, Emeritus Professor at the University of Costa Rica and Past President of the World Federation of Parasitologists. Together with Marta Conejo-Víquez and Arnoldo Castro-Araya, were pioneers in the study of the Angiostrongylus costaricensis life cycle, pathology, and ecology. Photo credit: Marcia Krauze Diehl. This photo is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license